Team Building Versus Team Development

The Distinguishing Factors

Team Building is most often regarded as a short-term, one-time intervention that is designed to promote effective communication and problem-solving skills. The timely development of these skills may play an important role in the current success of the team.

Team Development is employing a broad based, far reaching and future oriented plan for the development of a team's soft and hard skills. The ongoing development of these skills may play a role in the future success of the team.


Team Building is:
  • short-term focused 
  • soft skill oriented 
  • activity specific 
  • intervention 
  • a component of a team's development process 
  • management driven 
  • acting as a carpenter
 Team Development is:
  • long-term focused 
  • soft & hard skill based 
  • activity & strategic planning oriented 
  • prevention 
  • driving the development process 
  • leadership inspired 
  • serving as an architect

 

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Updated 5/5/2000