Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams

Chapter 1

What is a team?

In my book, Mapping Motivation,¹ we took our first look at what a team is and how that related to Motivational Maps.² We will not cover all that information again, but a brief re-cap is in order.

In Mapping Motivation, we contrast a team with a group and insist on the following: that groups can be classified in any number of fancy-sounding ways, but most are usually aligned with their function. So a group can be designated a department, a faculty, a unit, a branch, a board, a committee, a section and so on. It doesn’t matter whether the sales department is called the sales team or not: it may be called a sales team but be anything but a team. However, for optimum efficiency and effectiveness we need real teams, not ...