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Characteristics of Good Team Communications

At a recent workshop of professionals from various organizations we brainstormed the question "what are the characteristics of good team communication". We also explored "bad team communication". The results are as follows:

Characteristics of good team communication:

  • accountability
  • engaging
  • trust
  • clear and concise
  • honesty
  • truthfulness
    • Team Spirit
  • timely opinion
  • appropriate body language
  • transparency
  • clarity
  • two way
  • useful
  • good listening skills
  • common terminology
  • respectful
  • passionate while in control
  • appropriate environment
  • leadership
  • safety

Characteristics of bad team communication:

  • all about me vs. all about you
  • defensiveness
  • confusing
  • too much jargon
  • lack of accountability
  • opinionated
  • too much information
  • concealing
  • pointless
  • too much ego coming through
  • no rules of engagement (as in meetings)
  • argumentative

The workshop continued to explore these characteristics through the effective team communication game Interpret.

Do you have some characteristics that you would like added to these lists? Please send it to resource@mentoric.com.

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