The term 'team building' can refer generally to the selection and motivation of result oriented teams, or more specifically to group self-assessment in the theory and practice of organizational development. When a team in an organizational development context embarks upon a process of self-assessment in order to gauge its own effectiveness and thereby improve performance, it can be argued that it is engaging in team building.

The process of team building includes:

• Clarifying the goal, and building ownership across the team and

• Identifying the inhibitors to teamwork and removing or overcoming them, or if they cannot be removed, mitigating their negative effect on the team

To assess itself, a team seeks feedback to find out both:

• Its current strengths as a team

• Its current weakness

To improve its current performance, a team uses the feedback from the team assessment in order to:

• Identify any gap between the desired state and the actual state

• Design a gap-closure strategy