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The term 'team building' can refer generally to the selection and motivation of teams, or more specifically to group self-assessment in the theory and practice of organizational development.

When a team in an organizational development context embarks upon a process of self-assessment in order to gauge its own effectiveness and thereby improve performance, it can be argued that it is engaging in team building, although this may be considered a narrow definition.

The process of team building includes, (a) clarifying the goal, and building ownership across the team and (b)identifying the inhibitors to teamwork and removing or overcoming them, or if they cannot be removed, mitigating their negative effect on the team.

To assess itself, a team seeks feedback to find out both:

its current strengths as a team

its current weaknesses

To improve its current performance, a team uses the feedback from the team assessment in order to:

identify any gap between the desired state and the actual state

design a gap-closure strategy

See also

Collaboration

Cross-functional team

List of human resource management topics

Organizational psychology

Teamwork

Personal development

Office politics

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