What's the difference between a team and a group?

Very interesting chat on Wednesday with Dave Dawes (http://www.entreprenurses.net/) about the difference between a group and a team. I think what Dave was saying is that a team has a fixed number of members who stick around for a long time. A group has members that come and go.

Think this is very interesting with regard to the whole "forming storming norming and performing" account of team formation. If you have a group where the members are constantly changing, you will never get past the forming/storming/norming phase. So the amount of self-organisation and the level of performance you can expect from a group as posed to a team would probably be less. Similarly, the amount of management involvement required reduces as you move from forming to performing as this article explains.

I got thinking about all this forming, storming, norming and performing stuff after doing Rachel Davies' fascinating coaching exercise at minispa2009.

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