Team Development starts with team assessment. 

"Who" brings "what" to the table?

Do all team members understand their respective roles?

It sounds like a simple thing to answer these questions, but team performance is easily diminished by simple misunderstandings about these two questions, which leads to  miscommunication, misplaced team members (i.e.,followers in leader roles), lack of critical characteristics, poor team engineering, etc.

Miscommunication alone can result from just one member’s “blind spot” (not understanding how you “come across”) or not understanding or possibly appreciating styles different than your own. 

By building bridges to more effective communication, conflicts are resolved far more easily, lots if time is saved, morale is greatly  improved and productivity is increased.

Understanding every member's role, purpose, optimum behaviors and motivations increases our knowledge of how to better work with and fit into our team.