Establishing Team Behavior Norms - Team Development

The video explores the importance of team norms, which are implicit rules that guide team behavior. Norms enhance efficiency, group identity, and organizational interaction. They form through convergence, where team members bring past experiences, and leadership, where leaders model and set expectations. Norms cover roles, performance, cooperation, and more, and are crucial for a team to reach high performance.

What are norms and how do they function within a team?

Discuss the importance of efficiency in relation to team norms.

How do norms contribute to group identity within a team?

What are the two principal ways norms can be formed in a team?

Why is it crucial to establish productive norms at the start of team formation?

Explain the role of leadership in the formation of team norms.

Identify and describe some examples of what norms can cover in a team.