A highly functioning team, school, church, or organization:

1. Sticks with an essential, identified, agenda.
2. Knows why it was formed and why it continues to exist.
3. Knows what it wants to accomplish and can measure its progress.
4. Values individuals, values the “whole” without losing sight of either.
5. Regularly articulates group and individual roles, goals, and dreams.
6. Discourages rescuing (saving) behavior among team members.
7. Encourages necessary conflict.
8. Encourages internal dialogue and negotiation, yet sets limits on each.
9. Addresses gossip, rumor mongering, and other group destroyers and cancers.
10. Plays as hard as it works.
11. Acknowledges necessary hierarchy without being driven or defined by it.
12. Encourages “downward mobility” or authentic power gained through service.

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