Introduction This paper will address how a newly formed group can become a high performance team through investigation of the nature of teams and team building skills. This paper will also address the actions leaders can take to effect changes of a new group so that they may become high performing. A team is defined as a number of people organized to function cooperatively as a group (MSN Encarta). Teams in an organization must feel …showed first 75 words of 1175 total…

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