# Creating an organization team
You can create independent or nested teams to manage repository permissions and mentions for groups of people.
Organizations that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud can use team synchronization to automatically add and remove organization members to teams through an identity provider. For more information, see [Synchronizing a team with an identity provider group](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/synchronizing-a-team-with-an-identity-provider-group) in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.
1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click ** Organizations**.
2. Click the name of your organization.
3. Under your organization name, click ** Teams**.
4. At the top of the page, click **New team**.
5. Under "Create new team", type the name for your new team.
6. Optionally, in the "Description" field, type a description of the team.
7. Optionally, if you're creating a child team, under "Parent team", select the **Select a parent team** dropdown menu and click a parent team. For more information about child teams, see [About organization teams](/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams#nested-teams).
8. Under "Team visibility", select a visibility for the team.
9. Under "Team notifications", select **Enabled** or **Disabled**.
> \[!NOTE]
> This setting only applies to @mentions of the team name. This setting does not affect notifications for reviews requested from the team.
10. Click **Create team**.
11. Optionally, give the team access to organization repositories. For more information, see [Managing team access to an organization repository](/en/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/managing-team-access-to-an-organization-repository).