Groups of people charged with common goals or objectives are called teams.  The achievements can range from winning a sporting event to operating a business or supporting revenue generation (profit or non profit).

The teams performance can be very dependent on the members ability to collaborate.   That is their ability to work together to create  results (positive results).

Collaboration

The population of North America is very diverse and collaborating with others whose origins form a melting pot of cultures is no trivial task.

The efforts to work together will be rewarded by the innovation and creativity that  blossoms through integration of a multitude of skills, capabilities and perspectives.

Team members attitudes must include a willingness to work with others for the greater good but this not the only requirement for a high performing team.

It is rare for teams to perform at  high efficiency without some catylst.  This is where the practice of team facilitation can be invaluable.

Facilitation

At the extreme enfds, team interactions can be just a set of individuals acting independently or can be a group of individuals acting as one.

In the case of unified teams, individual group members facilitate interractions among themselves with the intent to assimilate everyone into the whole.

In some cases just one or two of the team specifically work on focusing the group while in other situations everyone acts in a facilitating role.

However the facilitation is implemented the teams outcomes our incrementally better than those of a team of individuals.