• A group of people is not a team. A team is a group of people with a high degree of interdependence geared toward the achievement of a goal or completion of a task...it is not just a group for administrative convenience.
  
• Every work group can become a work team and every work team can become a superior work team. That individuals perform separate and uncoordinated tasks does not prohibit them from working together to accomplish a whole host of integrated functions that are characteristic of team behavior. They can...Share ideas, improve all jobs and work processes is a group - whether the job or process is theirs or not...develop coordinated responses to organizational changes that effect the whole group...build respect...participate in setting common improvement goals...initiate common actions for performance.
  

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