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Team Dynamics

When you hear the word “team”, what does it mean to you? Think of the common factor between a baseball team, a military fire team, and a learning team. They all share many aspects. Each one is a group of people that have to work together to accomplish a task or job. Each person on those teams has their own individual assignment to carry out, and every assignment is just as important as the next. If one member fails to fulfill their duty the entire team will not function correctly. But how do we know who will have what task? How do we know who will even be a part of that team? Let’s dive a little deeper into the ingredients that make up team dynamics.
Research on team effectiveness concludes that the most important contributing factor is a clear and elevating goal. Further, the relationship between goal setting and task performance is probably the most robust finding in the research literature of the behavioral sciences. The more completely the purpose of the team ...

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