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v) The overlapping needs of Task, Team and Individual need to be

addressed

vi) Team processes

• to see what is really going on


• improved decision-making rests on seeing beneath the surface
  the pressures that influence the team


• calmness creates interdependence within the team and with
  the leader


• avoid team flight into abstractions


• aim for consensus (only where possible)


• assess team view of authority to see how processes/decisions
  are being affected by it.

vii) Teams within teams

• watch out for hostility, communication failure and mistrust as
  signs of team fragmentation


• develop teamwork between teams as well as within them


• winning can be as destructive to teams as losing, if not worse,
  unless both outcomes are handled well


• be aware of teams within teams and act accordingly to regain
  cohesiveness or sub-divide.

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