Team Performance
When one poor member can undermine a strong team.
What is the weakest-link effect?
When an external leader or manager monitors the work, designs the team, and sets the team’s direction.
What is a manager-led team?
Commissions, research and development teams, task forces, etc.
What are project teams?
A group that pursues performance goals through interdependent interaction.
What is a team?
The capacity to complete successfully a wide range of tasks.
What is collective intelligence?
When members have the authority to change the team itself.
What is a self-designing team?
Board of directors, top management teams (TMTs), executive teams, etc.
What are management teams?
When members of the team combine their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other resources, through a coordinated series of actions, to produce an outcome.
What is teamwork?
A process in which a group takes action, obtains and reflects upon feedback, and makes changes to adapt or improve.
What is team learning?
The extent to which members are different from one another.
What is diversity of the team?
Panels, steering committees, review boards, mentoring groups, etc.
What are advising teams?
A “faith in the effectiveness of team-based work that is not supported by, or is even inconsistent with, relevant empirical evidence.
What is the romance of teams?
Instructional methods used to promote the development of interpersonal and teamwork skills in individuals and teams.
What is team building?
A member with a set of unique personal experiences, interests, skills, abilities, and motivations, that merge together with the personal qualities of all the other individual members to form the team as a whole.
What is a team player?
Production teams, construction crews, performing ensembles, sports teams. etc.
What are work teams?
When information to be remembered is distributed to various members of the group who can then be relied upon to provide that information when it is needed.
What is transactive memory?
Instructional methods used to teach individuals and teams the cognitive, behavioral, and affective skills required for effective team performance.
What is team training?
When members decide what is to be done, structure the team and its context, manage their own performance, and actually carry out the work.
What is a self-governing team?
When members share the responsibilities among themselves on a rotating basis.
What is self-managing teams?
The confidence or certainty that other individuals will do what they are supposed to do even in the absence of pressure.
What is interpersonal trust?