The team understands the goals and is committed to attaining them. This clear direction and agreement on mission and purpose is essential for effective teamwork. Team members must have an overall mission that is agreed upon and that provides the umbrella for all that the team tries to do. This team clarity is reinforced when the organization has clear expectations for the teams work, goals, accountability, and outcomes.
The team creates an environment in which people are comfortable taking reasonable risks in communicating, advocating positions, and taking action. Team members trust each other. Team members are not punished for disagreeing disagreement is expected and appreciated.
Communication is open, honest, and respectful. People feel free to express their thoughts, opinions, and potential solutions to problems. People feel as if they are heard out and listened to by team members who are attempting to understand. Team members ask questions for clarity and spend their thought time listening deeply rather than forming rebuttals while their coworker is speaking.
Team members have a strong sense of belonging to the group. They experience a deep commitment to the group’s decisions and actions. This sense of belonging is enhanced and reinforced when the team spends the time to develop team norms or relationship guidelines together.

團隊了解目標并致力于實現目標。這一明確的方向和對使命和目標的一致意見對于有效的團隊合 團隊成員必須具有商定的總體使命，并為團隊嘗試的所有人提供保護傘。當組織對團隊的工作，目標，責任和結果有明確的期望時，團隊的明確性就會得到加強。
團隊創造了一個人們在溝通，提倡職位和采取行動時承擔合理風險的環境。團隊成員互相信任。團隊成員不會因不同意而受到懲罰 分歧是預期和贊賞的。
溝通是開放，誠實和尊重的。人們可以隨意表達自己的想法，意見和問題的潛在解決方案。人們覺得他們聽起來好像是聽到并聽取了試圖理解的團隊成員的意見。團隊成員提出清晰的問題并花費他們的思考時間深入傾聽，而不是在他們的同事發言時形成反駁。
團隊成員對團隊有強烈的歸屬感。他們對集團的決策和行動有著深刻的承諾。當團隊花時間共同制定團隊規范或關系指南時，這種歸屬感得到增強和強化。[本信息來自于今日推薦網]