GUIDELINES TO MANAGE TEAM PERFORMANCE

1. Select a team leader for each project.

2. Team leader, in collaboration with all team members, should formally plan and schedule the team activities. Note that it would be impossible to fully satisfy all the team member's time constraints and schedule requirements. Everyone must cooperate and compromise when necessary.

3. Advance your own ideas firmly but not dogmatically. Persisting rigidly on your own ideas, without a genuine effort to incorporate others' views to your own, will stifle creativity and block the generation and flow of innovative and fruitful ideas.

4. Be alerted to the fact that a chronic domination of the team process by one or two members would risk team productivity and become self-defeating.

5. Team performance should be determined by the majority. Failure of one team member to adequately contribute to team work should not be allowed to affect performance.

6. Each member should keep a timely record of team activities and submit these as cumulative evidence to support peer performance ratings.

7. Do not bring complaints about your team problems to me since I have no control over your team dynamics. Such complaints should be reflected in peer performance ratings as suggested in Item #6 above.