Nature of Team Success
True or False: Performance increases as time goes on.
True
True or false: Having the right people on the team is always the answer to team success.
ANSWER: False. It is essential to make sure that team members are also combining efforts and collaborating in a way that helps them perform tasks, monitor progress, and develop social relationships.
What important concept guides successful teamwork?
Collective Intelligence
What recent movement within psychology studies peoples strengths and how to promote positive functioning?
Positive Psychology
What can working in a team lead to?
Innovation
What are the 3 natures of team success?
Completing the task, developing social relations, and benefiting the individual.
What large factor can constrain a team from progressing or achieving success?
The Organizational Environment
What is the mindset called when team members must develop and practice affective cognitive skills?
Teaming
Team member well-being
When do teams often times become ineffective?
When organizations overrate and overuse them and/or when they are implemented with little consideration.
What is ranked highest in importance from the management perspective?
Completing the task
What is an example of something a team would do in the transition phase?
Creating mission analysis, goal specification, and strategy formation and planning. Example: Creating a Charter
What are the four core practices of teaming?
Speaking up, collaboration, experimentation, and reflection
What are the three categories in the positive psychology model?
Inputs, Processes, and Outcomes
What do organizations need to understand about teams?
They are not the solution to every problem and will not be automatically successful.
What is the definition of cohesion?
The degree to which members are attracted to the group and its' work.
What should you look at when reviewing your team composition?
What strengths and weaknesses your team members have
Why is there no single best model for effective teamwork?
Because different teams face different strategies.
What are three inputs in the positive psychology model?
Inspiring team tasks, Autonomy, and empowerment, Team diversity, Clear and flexible roles, Positive social relations, Supportive leadership, Team attachment
What must managers ensure when implementing teams?
The costs and organizing principles.
When completing a task who are the three major stakeholder’ expectations the team should meet?
Owners, customers, and team members.
Name two deep level attributes
Possible answers: personality traits, knowledge, skills, opinions, and values. These make the most impact on the team.
What does social sensitivity correspond to?
A teams average level of emotional intelligence and equality communication.
What are three outputs from the positive psychology models?
Team member wellbeing, Social engagement and support, Team performance, Team learning and innovation
What are self managing work teams?
Teams that work collaboratively with little direction and supervision from upper management.