“Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance, 4th Edition”

Laying the foundation for successful team performance trajectories: The roles of team charters and performance strategies.

This study examined the influences of team charters and performance strategies on the performance trajectories of 32 teams of master's of business administration students competing in a business strategy simulation over time. The authors extended existing theory on team development by demonstrating that devoting time to laying a foundation for both teamwork (i.e., team charters) and taskwork (p...

Improving Virtual Team Performance: An Empirical Approach

Increased performance is the key reason for developing software with virtual teams but the research efforts to date are limited. Difficulties for a formal, generic approach are multiplied by the significant differences between how small and large software organizations react to changing operational conditions and act to increase performance. The aim of the paper is to provide the guidelines on ...

Improving Agent Team Performance through Helper Agents

In this paper, we consider the problem of environmental constraints on teams and examine how the constraints impact teamwork. We simulate a realistic problem for teams in the physical world by implementing a limit on the range of communication among agents. Using BlocksWorld for Teams from Delft University of Technology, we build teams of 3-4 agents with varying communication ranges and of diff...

A team-building model for team-based care.

Intraprofessional team building.

This article discusses the importance of team building between occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants and the relationship of teamwork to the effectiveness of service delivery within the profession of occupational therapy. If team members' needs are not satisfied, dysfunctional intraprofessional teams result. Team building is based on the satisfaction of three areas of indi...