Why Team Building?
Team Building is an intervention to help a group of people quickly become an effective team and remain effective. It is highly recommended that team building be used on all projects where most of the following are true: • Significant issues of trust need to be dealt with by team members before they can become an effective team. Project teams often have a number of members who are either strangers or little known to one another at the outset. Some members may carry baggage from old working relationships. • The Front End of a project is critical to its success. A large portion of dollar and schedule savings are made in the Front End. Therefore, getting off to a quick start as a project team is very important. However, this is hard to do when trust relationships have not been built yet and would naturally take quite a bit of time to evolve. • Different perspectives of team members from different organizations: business units, contractors, suppliers and joint venture partners make it diffi
