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Component 4: Designing a Team Architecture
This includes structuring work in a flexible and effective way and
reorganizing the work and/or specific jobs as needed; providing
clarity about individual and team roles and expectations so that all
members understand both their own and one another’s jobs, with
enough role flexibility provided to foster creativity, innovation, and
initiative; establishing individual and team accountabilities and
metrics, and regularly monitoring individual and team perform-
ance; and establishing a reward system that reinforces both the
individual and team behaviors required for success.

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Component 5: Establishing Effective Team Processes
This involves designing effective and efficient work-flow processes;
ensuring that work between and among team members is well
coordinated; creating multiple communication vehicles that are effi-
cient, accurate, and timely so that information flows freely within
the team and between the team and other parts of the organization;
providing clarity regarding the team’s scope of authority and its
decision-making processes; communicating information about deci-
sions in a clear and timely manner; planning and facilitating meet-
ings that encourage participation, make the best use of time, and
produce important results; and ensuring that differences and con-
flicts are responded to in a timely and constructive manner.

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Component 6: Building a Team Culture
This includes creating a positive, collaborative environment in
which employees feel valued, respected, and appreciated; devel-
oping an inclusive culture in which diversity of perspective, style,
and background is perceived as value-added; designing an atmo-
sphere in which individual strengths are leveraged, and in which