In a sense, group members have an identity problem. They know who they are as individuals, but not who they are in relation to others in the group. Members work together and relate to each other in an interdependent manner. Individuals see themselves and one other as members of the group and find their membership rewarding. Greater benefits are provided to a group than to separate individuals.
Members share a common purpose or goal that they understand and accept.
Members have an established, mutually acceptable structure for accomplishing tasks and interacting with each other. Members successfully complete different tasks in order to accomplish a shared purpose. A collection of individuals is not a group at its first organizational meeting. . The cohesiveness and team spirit that characterize a group come with time, while people gather to share ideas and skills to achieve a common goal. This text was extracted from the publication, EP87.