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Team composition
Team composition
For innovative goal, compose your team of members who are dissimilar to each other
For innovative goal, compose your team of members who are dissimilar to each other
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When you are asked to compose a team, there are a number of things to consider.
>The size of the team for example.
- More team members provide more resources, but also need more management.
- Think about it, it takes more time to give feedback to 10 people than to 3.
- Moreover, it has been found that larger groups tend to be less productive than smaller groups.
>Furthermore, it is important to have people in your team that can do the job.
So you need to select team members who have the skills that fit the team goal.
>Productive tasks:
- You might be looking for individuals who all have eye for technical details, and are accurate and flexible.
>Creative tasks:
- You might be better off with a collection of individuals that are different.
- Men and women, young and old, who are from different educational, functional, or cultural backgrounds, and who have different skills.
>Team performance rather than individual members performance:
That is, one way to compose a work team that performs better than its individual members,
is by selecting individuals who are not similar to each other.