How to build and manage top performing teams

Team building is an essential part of the leadership toolkit. But what skills, preparation, and planning are required to build and lead teams effectively and efficiently.

Team building brings with it a few challenges and risks. If the team size is too big, people resort to social loafing, i.e. they put in less effort than what they are capable of. Team building also creates the possibility of personality clashes which hurt productivity.

But the upside of a well managed team is huge. Management gurus and leadership experts have written extensively about effective team building practices. I have collected frameworks from three of the world’s leading experts who have formed their ideas based on extensive global research and experience. My aim is to help executives who are going through the challenge of team building or want to improve their leadership skills in this area.