Team building aims to increase productivity while lowering costs. It eliminates formal communication memos and speeds up implementing changes through teamwork. Benefits include increased productivity, quality, morale, problem solving, creativity, and better decisions. Work becomes less stressful when responsibility and rewards are shared.
Teams are small groups of people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose and goals who hold each other accountable. There are different stages of team development including forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. In the forming stage, members are dependent on leadership for direction and concerned about fitting in, while in the storming stage frustrations may arise about goals and tasks.