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Less skilled
• Doesn’t create a common mindset or challenge.

• Fails to recognize that morale, recognition, and belongingness are integral ingredients of effective
teams.

• Prioritizes and rewards individual efforts rather than team achievements.
• Doesn’t shape and distribute assignments in a way that encourages teamwork.

Talented
• Defines success in terms of the whole team.
• Recognizes that leveraging each team member’s unique background and perspective is critical to
achieving team goals.
• Rallies others behind common team goals.

• Places team goals ahead of own goals.

Overused skill
• May focus so much on teaming behavior that results may suffer.
• May build such a strong sense of team identity that it is hard for new members to break in and get up
to speed.
• May not develop individual leaders.

Some possible causes of lower skill
Causes help explain why a person may have trouble with Builds effective teams. When seeking to
increase skill, it’s helpful to consider how these might play out in certain situations. And remember that all
of these can be addressed if you are motivated to do so.

• Prefers working alone.
• Not clear about team purpose and goals.

• Doesn’t engage others.
• Needs to be in control.
• Avoids sharing information.

• Excessively action oriented.
• Conflict averse.
• Poor process management skills.
• Avoids holding people accountable.

• Incentives are based upon individual achievement.
• Has difficulty motivating others.

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