Team Based Working

Ensure the most suitable people are used in the design stage.
Ask employees what their views on team based working are and how they themselves would implement team based working.
Reduce the barriers within the workplace, often the more levels in a organisations structure the greater the lines of communication are.
Be prepared to look at other companies and see how they have managed to implement team based working, ask them how they got and what the pitfalls were. You will be suprised just how obliging other companies can be.

The ideal team leader as discussed by Woodcock is shown to have the following abilities:

High leadership skills.
Highly motivated.
Establish high standards amongst the teams.
Strong communication skills, to promote team ethics.
Able to define the roles and team functions.
Employee nurturing, not over critical of employees, as well as promoting creativity within the team.
Use feedback from teams constructively.