Listening is essential for clearly understanding what the team leader is trying to say. Always show courtesy, respect and politeness while requesting the speaker to clarify some point.

Each idea should be validated properly by facts, statistics and explanations so that their acceptability increases.

Proper selection of words and body language is essential for getting the point across effectively. Proper eye contact, posture and confidence should be maintained while speaking.

Adding a bit of humor to the discussion can greatly increase the effectiveness of team communication as boredom gets thrown off the air through this.

Public criticism of one's ideas should be refrained as this might make the team member feel humiliated or offended. Hence, it is important that the idea of each team member is properly respected in the initial forum.

It is extremely essential that one is well adept with how to communicate in a team environment, as these skills will help them in building harmonious relationships within the team and work towards achieving the team objective successfully.