Team Management
PMQ objective 13: create, develop and sustain effective teams, apply recognised team models and lead virtual or hybrid collaboration.
How to study for APM PMQ
Build precise APM terminology, compare approaches in context and practise short, structured scenario explanations using the command verb and mark value as a guide.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Team creation and development require clear purpose, suitable membership, agreed roles, working norms, trust, feedback, leadership and attention to changing needs.
Exam cue: Match the model to the question: preferences, development stage, enabling conditions or performance discipline.
Concept 2
Belbin, Margerison–McCann and Myers–Briggs offer different lenses on preferences; Hackman, Tuckman and Katzenbach and Smith focus on team conditions, development or performance.
Exam cue: For remote work, make information, decisions, participation and team connection explicit.
Concept 3
An effective team has shared purpose, complementary capability, psychological safety, clear accountability, constructive challenge and the ability to learn.
Concept 4
Virtual and hybrid teams need deliberate communication norms, inclusive access to information, visible work, social connection and time-zone-aware coordination.
Concept 5
Models should prompt observation and conversation rather than stereotype or permanently label individuals.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Using a preference model to decide what a person can or cannot do.
Guardrail: Do not offer a generic project-management statement; connect the concept to the evidence, authority and consequence in the scenario.
Assuming virtual teams need only more meetings rather than better-designed collaboration.
Guardrail: Do not offer a generic project-management statement; connect the concept to the evidence, authority and consequence in the scenario.
Memory anchors
Team foundations
Shared purpose, complementary capability, norms, trust, accountability and learning.
Model with care
Use team models as discussion lenses, not permanent labels.
Tuckman
Forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
Virtual team design
Create inclusive access, visible work, clear norms and deliberate connection.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is the first priority when creating a project team?
Which stage in Tuckman's model involves orientation and uncertainty?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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