Group and Team Fundamentals
A small number of people with complementary skills who are mutually accountable for pursuing a common purpose and achieving performance goals.
What is a team?
One of the key benefits of working in teams is that it increases this, which can lead to improved job satisfaction and efficiency.
What is motivation and engagement?
Amazon uses this rule to determine the ideal team size, suggesting that a team should be small enough to be fed with two of these.
What is the "two-pizza" team rule?
This type of team conflict focuses on problem-related differences of opinion and can be beneficial when managed effectively.
What is cognitive (C-type) conflict?
A team’s overall ability, experience, and personality level is referred to as this.
What is team level?
This type of team interdependence requires team members to complete tasks in a specific order, with one member’s output becoming the next member’s input.
What is sequential interdependence?
This occurs when team members feel pressure not to disagree with each other, leading to poor decision-making.
This component of a team contract includes shared expectations about how things operate within a group or team.
This conflict-handling style is useful when quick decisions need to be made and unpopular decisions are necessary.
What is forcing (competing)?
Teams that have a high degree of discretion, freedom, and independence to decide how and when to accomplish their jobs have this.
What is team autonomy?
Tuckman’s model of group development includes these five stages: forming, storming, norming, performing, and this final stage.
What is adjourning?
This term refers to when one or two people dominate team discussions, preventing balanced input from all members.
What is minority domination?
Conducting meetings in this position has been shown to save time and keep information flowing efficiently.
What is standing up?
When individuals feel safe to take risks, speak up, and be authentic without fear of punishment, a team has this quality.
What is psychological safety?
Google’s research identified this as the most important factor in determining team effectiveness.
What is psychological safety?