{"id":658,"date":"2021-09-30T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:47:44","slug":"building-high-functioning-teams-from-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/building-high-functioning-teams-from-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Building High-functioning Teams from Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the surface, you might feel that there are no big differences between groups and teams. You might even opine that how a group and a team function is interchangeable. Although the\u00a0differences between groups and teams\u00a0may seem subtle at first, when you delve deeper, you will see\u00a0these\u00a0defined distinctions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"8\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Groups have arbitrary behavior where members do not have any allegiance to each other.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"8\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Teams\u2019 members are collectively committed to each other and\u00a0have\u00a0team goals with a sense of mutual accountability \u2013 groups usually do not have mutual accountability.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teamsofdistinction.com\/turn-group-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Teams of Distinctions<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0simplifies the differences between a group and a team metaphorically for a simpler and quicker understanding:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of men are walking across a frozen river. One person\u2019s icy footpath cracks and gives way, and he falls into the freezing water. Group members are upset over this accident \u2013 some of them may think that he should have been more cautious, and they move on, quite detached from each other. Compare this to a team of sled dogs and a musher racing across a frozen river. The icy river cracks here and there and the entire team of huskies and human evade the cracks by applying teamwork and make it to the riverbank safely, in the spirit of \u201cNone of us will fall else, all of us fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>How does\u00a0leadership in groups\u00a0and\u00a0leadership in teams\u00a0differ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a group, the leader controls.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a team, the leader facilitates.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How can I turn a group into a dynamic\u00a0and\u00a0high-functioning team?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You can begin by applying the following:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Define a common purpose that will work to convert a group into a team.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Implement mission-critical thinking; ensure the feeling that the team is pursuing a mission that is bigger than the defined goals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Create \u201cfire in the belly\u201d in team members \u2013 the inner zeal that spurs them to go above and beyond.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"10\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Set high standards of performance for the team, for the greater good of the company.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can adeptly convert business groups\u00a0into corporate teams, by taking the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/courses-certificate\/?course=Project-Management-360-%28CEC02%29&amp;cs=8&amp;id=79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Project Management 360<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> certificate offered by Genashtim in collaboration with eCornell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">eCornell courses are approved by\u00a0SkillsFuture\u00a0Singapore for\u00a0SkillsFuture\u00a0Credit as well as by HRD Corp Malaysia under its SBL-Khas Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, you might feel that there are no big differences between groups and teams. 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Although the\u00a0differences between groups and teams\u00a0may seem subtle at first, when you delve deeper, you will see\u00a0these\u00a0defined distinctions: Groups have arbitrary behavior where members do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2021-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}