How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success

Getting your team off on the right foot is critical to its success. This guidebook tells managers and team leaders how to address four critical points during the launch of a team: setting purpose and direction, defining roles and responsibilities, designing procedures and practices, and building cooperation and relationships. Understanding and implementing these key elements is key to a team's achieving the goals the organization has set for it.

Kim Kanaga is the director of CCL's Greensboro Campus, overseeing all campus site resources and day-to-day activities in support of CCL's strategic direction. He has an extensive background in team-building initiatives, which he has used to customize team effectiveness programs for many CCL clients. Kim holds a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University.

Sonya Prestridge is a senior program associate in the custom solutions group at CCL. She has been an instructor in The Women's Leadership Program and a researcher investigating geographically dispersed teams. She holds a Ph.D. in adult education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.