ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how to build a good project team that can give your project the best possible chance of succeeding. It also focuses on the roles that people habitually play within teams and look at one way of exploring how people relate to each other in teams. The chapter explores how to use positive psychology to help build a project team. It further focuses on team culture and how to create an environment that facilitates high-performing teams. Verma suggests that effective teams can also be characterised by certain task- and people-oriented characteristics. Some of the task-oriented characteristics: commitment to technical success; on schedule, on budget performance; commitment to producing high-quality results and innovative and creative, so on. Some of the people-oriented characteristics: high involvement work interest and high energy, capacity to solve conflicts, good communication, good team spirit, self-development of team members and effective organisational interface, so on.
