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Train on teaming skills

Train on teaming skills

From the course: Increasing Collaboration on Your Team

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Train on teaming skills

- Did you know that the same qualities that enable team success, can also undermine it. Harvard did a study and found that today's teams are large, diverse, composed of highly educated specialists, and increasingly virtual. Well, all of these qualities are crucial for success. Harvard found and I quote, "Members of complex teams are less likely, absent other influences, to share knowledge freely, to learn from one another, to shift workloads flexibly to break up unexpected bottlenecks, to help one another complete jobs and meet deadlines and to share resources. In other words, to collaborate." That's why it's vitally important that you provide team training, so that your people have what they need to succeed. Team training refers to the knowledge and skills needed to work well as a team and perform the task together successfully. Here are the topics I always include. One, information on the three types of teamwork. When…

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