Attention to results: Team members regularly monitor their progress toward achieving the results. They don’t gloss over their performance, but talk about it.
Accountability: Team members hold each other accountable for their performance. When someone under-performs, the team tells them immediately and in direct, honest terms.
Commitment: Everyone adopts a common goal or set of goals and commits to achieving them. Goals are defined simply enough to be easily grasped, specific enough to be actionable.
Creative conflict: People ask tough questions of one another and challenge each others assumptions. They probe an argument until they are satisfied.
Trust: Team members open up to each other. They admit their mistakes, weaknesses, concerns without fear of reprisal.