The best teams invest a tremendous amount of time and effort exploring, shaping, and agreeing on a purpose that belongs to them collectively and individually. The heart of any team is its members. So you need to bring together the right people with the right skills. A team can gather its members in a number of ways. A team sponsor or leader may select members and invite them to participate. Individuals who feel highly invested or interested in the work may step forward and offer to become members. Or people with an interest in the project nominate individuals who have the right skills and in whom they have confidence. Work with your team to identify a set of success measures--how you'll know when the team has met its goals. These measures will depend largely on the specific work your team will be doing. And they will need to reflect the achievement of clear milestones on the road to the team's goals. Develop procedures for keeping everyone updated on what the team is accomplishing and which decisions are being made as the work progresses. Decide who will submit what kinds of information to whom, how often they will do it, how they will do it--such as through a weekly email, video- or phone conference, or status reports posted regularly on a team website or an intranet site. Determine an information-sharing method. Then keep using it, so everyone knows what to expect and can get the information they need--when they need it.