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Team Cohesion

Developing team cohesion is essential for building and leading resilient teams. By fostering strong, supportive, and dependable relationships within the team, managers enhance overall well-being, reduce stress, and promote creativity and collective decision-making. Cohesive teams are more capable of overcoming adversity in the workplace, and developing cohesion boosts teamwork.

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Leader Tasks and Supporting Knowledge & Skills

Leader Task 1: Analyze team cohesion.

  • Know why developing cohesion is important.
  • Know how to analyze team cohesion.
  • Know why social cohesion and task cohesion are different.

Leader Task 2: Organize people to work in teams.

  • Know why working in teams is important.
  • Know how to organize people to work in teams.
  • Know why shared leadership is important for working in teams.

Leader Task 3: Promote trust between team members.

  • Know why trust between team members is important.
  • Know how to promote trust between team members.
  • Know why social trust and task trust are different.

Leader Task 4: Ensure mutual respect between team members.

  • Know why mutual respect between team members is important.
  • Know how to ensure mutual respect between team members.

Leader Task 5: Keep the team informed.

  • Know why keeping the team informed is important.
  • Know how to keep the team informed.
  • Know why transparency is important.

Leader Task 6: Keep people focused on the mission.

  • Know why keeping people focused on the mission is important.
  • Know how to keep people focused on the mission.

Leader Task 7: Talk about setbacks.

  • Know why talking about setbacks is important.
  • Know how to talk about setbacks.

Updated 05/13/2025