What is an Effective Team?

       Have you ever belonged to a team that "worked well" together? In typical divorcing families and stepfamilies, co-parents  need to patiently overcome some mix of these barriers to form an effective nurturing team (Project 10) as they merge and stabilize their biofamilies over several years:

●   informed, aware, motivated, effective leaders, who evolve...

●  clear, compatible goals and priorities, and a viable plan to reach the goals;     and...

●  freedom to acquire enough relevant resources and supports to work the     plan; and...

●  every team-member is clear on their and other members' personal rights,       roles, and related rules;  and...

●  each person works to acquire enough knowledge and skills to perform their     roles effectively; and...

●  each person accepts and respects (a) themselves and (b) each other     teammate, despite conflicts and differences with them; and...

●  the ability to accept when group changes are needed, and the courage to     make them; and...

●  an effective way of identifying and resolving individual and group problems     (unfilled needs) as they occur.

        Would you amend these traits? Would each of your co-parents say these traits describe all your family's adults and supporters now? If not, what's in the way of you all intentionally becoming a more effective nurturing team together? Project 10 offers effective ways to increase your family teamwork over time.

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