GROUP BEHAVIOR AND PROCESSESHow groups become a high-performance team:Stress the importance of a clear and uplifting goal in effective team performance.Clarity of goals it is a specific performance objective, formulated in this concrete language that can tell, unequivocally, whether that performance objective has been achieved or not and that makes the difference. Perhaps the most important component of an effectively functioning team, it seems to be even more critical to a team. A team member needs to understand much more than co-located teams what goal they are working towards because they may be working in such different areas, and in some cases indifferent countries. It plays a much stronger role if you know what your end goal will be. And that everyone is working towards the same thing. Further work on team performance demonstrates a positive correlation between empowerment and team performance. They define empowerment as having four dimensions, two of which, power and impact, overlap significantly with the concepts of clarity and elevation of goals. Team structure is a key factor that differentiates successful teams from unsuccessful ones. Team structure includes many aspects such as tools, processes, communication systems, structures and team organization. However, the best structure depends on your goals and team composition. Teams tend to be very effective in project development activities. However, the lack of face-to-face contact can pose a challenge in building an agreement. For decision-making teams, having the right composition can help overcome this problem. Collectivistic teams have higher levels of collaborative conflict management than individualistic teams and are more motivated by outcomes that benefit the entire team. Research has also shown that highly diverse or heterogeneous teams outperform homogeneous teams on many performance measures, although they take longer to reach consensus. Vitality can be useful for highly diverse teams as it blurs potentially divisive demographic differences. There are four characteristics necessary for an effective team structure, which apply equally to virtual teams, but become more challenging. First, team members must have clear roles and responsibilities. Lack of visibility can cause virtual team members to feel less accountable for outcomes, so explicit facilitation of teamwork takes on greater importance for virtual teams. Temporal coordination mechanisms, such as scheduling deadlines and coordinating the pace of efforts, are recommended to increase accountability. Secondly, teams need effective communication systems.