Storyboarding techniques are useful for teams faced with creative and problem-solving tasks. Four types are planning, idea, organization, and communication boards. Each type requires a creative thinking (brainstorming) session and a critical thinking session to evaluate ideas and determine their usefulness. (SK)

Suggests that long-term vision, commitment of sufficient time and money, adequate planning, and sufficient training and coaching are necessary for the success of teams. In addition, teams must be responsible for solving their own problems. Offers recommendations for a number of problems and situations that often arise. (JOW)

Having teams in the workplace requires new approaches such as learning how to run efficient meetings. Facilitators fill a number of roles: role model, catalyst, meeting manager, trainer/consultant, guide and goad, peacemaker, and coach/mentor. To ensure that facilitators can handle these tasks, they need facilitator training. (JOW)

Corning enhanced teamwork by training employees to facilitate team training. The employees learned to deal with change management, interpersonal communication, feedback, group development, team and individual expectations, and conflict management. (SK)

Notes that voices of youth are seldom heard in tribunals of educational and treatment planning. Contends that children and adolescents must become partners in their own healing and that this will require the creation of new ways of teaming youth with professionals. Examines roadblocks to youth participation in teams, then redefines youth as…

A case study of a Fortune 500 company was used to develop an integrated model of high-performance work organizations. Components are systems thinking, team interaction, team principles, and results. The model requires an ongoing training plan, change agents or champions, and recognition of teams' productive potential and fragile nature. (SK)

Highlights the need for balance between content and process in task/work groups. Presents a conceptual model with visual maps depicting an ideal meeting of a task/work group as well as four scenarios in which the balance fails to occur. Implications of balance between content and process in groups, especially meetings, are discussed. (Author)

Belbin's theory that teams with a wide range of roles are more effective than those with role imbalance was tested with six teams composed of individuals with homogenous roles and six with mixed roles. Mixed teams performed better on team tasks. (SK)

A shift is occurring from the idea that only experts have valuable knowledge toward the notion that useful knowledge is distributed throughout organizations. Corporate examples show how knowledge is transferred among teams and new knowledge developed in the process. (SK)

Reviews the history of teamwork in mental health since the 1930s and themes in the literature (team membership, leadership, status, conflict, ideology, structure). Explores parallels between paradigm shifts in mental health teamwork and gerontology. (SK)

Offers a framework for understanding the complexities of collaborative working. Examines a model to connect and integrate individual and collective perspectives. (Contains 18 references.) (Author)

This study examined the sociometric status of victims, perpetrators and bully-victims (those who self-reported being a victim and a perpetrator) in functional workplace teams and assessed the relationship between victimisation and bullying on team effectiveness. A sample of 288 fire-fighter personnel in 36 teams were asked to self-report and…

Almost anyone has held various roles on a team, be it a family unit, sports team, or a project-oriented team. As an educator, one must make a conscious decision to build and invest in a team. Gathering the best team possible will help one achieve one's goals. This article explores some of the key reasons why it is important to focus on the team…

The Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU) is one of nine historically Black colleges and universities with undergraduate engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Since 2001, the School of Engineering at MSU has been a participant in a multi-school…

This study examines a method to decrease social loafing in a group examination. Students who met in teams during the semester took an exam in groups. Rules for the exam, based on the Jeopardy game show, facilitated both group and individual accountability. Feedback from students indicated that compared to a class that did not have group exams,…