To: Anika Huggins From: Tayo Sunmola
Date: Wednesday 23th September 2015
Subject: Types of teams and leadership styles

1.0 Introduction
This report that I am writing to you is about the different types of teams and leadership styles I learned on the training course you sent me on.

2.0 Types of Teams
2.1 What is a team?
A collection of people with a shared purpose and a commitment to working together. Everyone knows the purpose of the team and achieve this together.

2.2 There are five different types of team:
Formal – These are teams created for a specific purpose and people are allocated a specific role set up to perform a task or group of tasks. They have more rules and clear expectations: interviewing new members of staff, welcome team, customer services and management team.
Informal – This type of team is less structured, with less rules and expectations. It could be a group of employees discussing new ideas.
Temporary – This type of team is set up for short periods of time to complete a task. The nature of the project is clarified from the beginning and members come together to agree a team plan. Clear roles are given so each member knows what is expected and the team splits up when the project is finished.
Permanent – With this team the members work together continuously i.e. the work is normally ongoing. Roles and patterns of behaviour are developed over time with a clear purpose and everyone knows what is expected of them.
Project – A group of individuals put together to perform activities that contribute toward completing a common task related goal. Many business operators will put together a project team consisting of skilled workers from the same or different function areas to work on an important project.
It is suggested 5 is the optimum team size as it prevents deadlock, is large enough to prevent mistakes from insufficient