Just as Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney cried, "Let's put on a show!" to solve problems in their 1940s movie lives, many businesses cry "Let's build teams!" to attack problems ranging from low productivity to poor morale, high costs and missed deadlines. Employee teams intuitively seem to be a great idea and are certainly a growing trend.
Use your newfound knowledge of teams and discuss the following 3 elements:
a. Describe the stages of group development? Why is it important that managers have an understanding of the group development process?

b. Identify and discuss three group property or team process elements you feel are most important in building a high performing team.

c. Identify and discuss at least TWO factors that determine whether teams are successful.