By Sheila Kloefkorn – Guest blogger . The Leadership Team. Principles of Effective Teamwork; Structural Factors Impacting Team Effectiveness; Assessment of Team Performance and Learning; 1. Principles of Successful Teamwork and Team Competencies The eight principles of successful interdisciplinary teamwork with proposed team commitments are: 1. Nov 18, 2016, 10:39am MST. Four simple principles for highly effective teams Published on April 4, 2013 April 4, 2013 • 285 Likes • 76 Comments The Virtual Team. Teamwork has always been an essential capability for successful enterprises, but with today’s organisations undergoing disruption and digitisation in an ‘innovate or die’ economy, it is now more important than ever that employees can collaborate effectively across geographical sites, between business functions and within increasingly fluid job hierarchies. The team should have explicitly stated team goals. The Marketing Team. Six Fundamentals of Teamwork. The Sales Team. The demand for a collaborative work product is only increasing, and the amount of time the workforce spends in team-related activities will also continue to increase, according to author Jeanne Meister.Even though it has become crucial to workplace success, however, collaboration is often difficult. Each team member will be able to state the team’s purpose and goals.