The Team Performance Domain focuses on cultivating a cohesive and high-performing team responsible for delivering project outcomes. Through effective leadership and management, this domain aims to achieve shared ownership, foster a high-performing team culture, and demonstrate applicable interpersonal skills among team members.
Project Team Management and Leadership
Project management involves both management and leadership activities, emphasizing effective processes and people-centric approaches. While management activities may be centralized or distributed, leadership is practiced by all team members, influencing motivation and engagement.
Centralized Management and Leadership
In centralized environments, accountability is typically assigned to a single individual, such as the project manager. This structure ensures clear decision-making authority and project oversight.
Distributed Management and Leadership
Alternatively, project management activities may be shared among a project management team, with project team members assuming responsibility for task completion. In self-organizing teams, leadership roles may shift, promoting collaboration and autonomy.
Servant Leadership
Servant leadership emphasizes understanding and addressing the needs of project team members to maximize performance. Servant leaders facilitate self-organization, remove obstacles, shield from distractions, and provide encouragement and development opportunities.
Common Aspects of Team Development
Regardless of management structure, effective team development involves aligning on project vision and objectives, clarifying roles and responsibilities, establishing communication processes, providing guidance, and fostering continuous growth.
Integration Across Organizations
In cross-organizational projects, roles and functions may be formalized based on contractual agreements, requiring upfront efforts to establish collaboration, ensure mutual understanding, and integrate diverse skills and processes for seamless project delivery.
