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Building Better Teams

From developing a vision to staying focused on short- and long-term goals, from talking about the tough stuff to having fun whenever possible, these eight traits help project leaders build high-performance teams. Which ones do you already do well, and which ones might you work on?


Michael Nir

President, Sapir Consulting

Sr. Business Management Consultant and Trainer His latest title on Buil…

Building a high performance team is a lot of work, especially for the team leader. But as one manager said, it’s a lot more work to not build a high performance team. Some leaders consistently demonstrate the traits necessary to make their teams into high performance teams. They can be taken out of one team, dropped into another and within 18 months, they’ll have made the second team into a high performance team. Whether their old team stays high performance or not will depend upon the leadership traits of the new team leader.

Develop a Vision

More than anything, team leaders of high performance teams are visionary leaders. They don’t start by looking at where …



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