Leadership Training: What Makes a Team? (Video Blog)

Webster’s dictionary lists the definition of a team as “a number of persons associated together in work or activity.” Sometimes the word “team” in the workplace conjures up images of a faceless mass of people with no room for individuality or expression. Bill Stinnett, Ph.D. (L.E.T. Master Trainer) explains that one of the functions of a team is for everyone to understand the needs of the other individuals that make up the whole. Communication skills that are taught in leadership training, such as Active Listening, can’t happen without more than one person – so without a team how can anyone listen to your needs? In the end, a group of individuals that work together as a team are more productive and satisfied than a group of individuals that work as individuals.