# Team Management

## What is a Team?

In Simple OKR we use teams to create logical groupings of people. This usually translates directly to the teams or departments at your company.

Every team must have a manager responsible for maintaining team structure. Each team can have zero or more team members. A single person can be a member of several teams.

When running an OKR cycle, teams can draft and own a set of Objectives.

### Leadership Team

Simple OKR has a concept of a leadership (or executive) team. The leadership team has special rights to draft and set Company level Objectives. You can designate the leadership team through from the company settings page, `Settings -> Company`.

### Team Manager

Team manager is a person responsible for maintaining team's structure. The manager can add or remove members to the team and change team's name.

The team manager cannot delete a team or change team manager to a different one. These actions are only permitted to the people with Administrator access rights.

### Team Member

Team member is a user that belongs to a team. Team members can draft, edit and create team objectives.

## Create a Team

New teams can be created by users who have Administrator access rights. To create a new team go to `Settings -> Teams` page and click on `New Team`.

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You will be presented with a dialog windows where you can enter the details about the team.

{% hint style="info" %}
Remember, only the team manager can add or remove people from the team. Make, sure you set the correct team manager in order to add members to the team later.
{% endhint %}

## Update or Delete a Team

Team details can be updated by clicking on the tripple dot button next to the team. Go to `Settings -> Teams` and click on the tripple dot button next to the team to reveal a menu.

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You can update or delete a team by selected an action item from the menu.

## Add or Remove Team Members

People can be added to or removed from the team by the team's manager. To do so, go to the team's page by going to `People -> Teams` and selecting a team from the list. Go to the `Members` tab and click on `Add New Member` button.

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Select a user from the list that you'd like to add to the team and click on `Add User to Team`.

To remove user from the team click the tripple dot button next to the team member to reveal action menu.

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Select `Remove` to remove the user from the team.