This article describes a recent initiative, which used life-coaching to develop strong leadership skills and empower individual team members and the team as a whole. A three-stage process was used to enable a team of nurses in a GP practice to improve working relationships, leadership skills and stress management.

Team projects play an important role in the education of engineers. This paper describes a team project module that is part of a postgraduate course in informatics. Its main objective is to give students a hands-on experience with different aspects of working in a team on a problem. We discuss several issues that should be considered in designing such module as a part of a curriculum: team form...

Agile software development relies heavily on tight and continuous collaboration, which becomes a challenge when team members work at a distance. Despite significant focus on distributed Agile working, remote working, when only one or two individuals are not co-located with the rest of the team, remains largely unexplored. We focus on one organisation with several such teams and investigate one ...

This study presents a theoretical model of the working paper review process within the financial statement audit. The model is based on the concepts of reliability engineering with auditors functioning as the main control components. Characteristics of the model are investigated using simulation and differential analysis. Our simulation results show that the performance of a combined review tea...

Aims: International evaluation of Early Stroke Discharge (ESD) has concentrated on measuring the impact of service provision. This research aimed to address the question, „How did the ESD team members and external stakeholders experience the service implementation process?‟ Methodology: Between October 2009 and February 2010, six team members and four external stakeholders were interviewed as p...