by Mandy Balsom, Roderick Barrass, John Michela, Agnes Zdaniuk
Translated into Markdown from original at: https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/sites/ca.psychology/files/uploads/files/processesattributeseffectiveteams.jm_.v4.pdf
Mission and Goals: High performing teams have a clear mission and/or goals. The organization's mission describes its overall direction and general goals for accomplishing the mission. These broad goals must then be narrowed down into more specific tasks. It is these more specific goals that the team will be working towards. For example, while an organization's mission may call for the development of five new products within a ten year span, a more specific goal for a team to work towards would be the completion of one product within a time frame of two years.