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July 2007
This month's
newsletter...
Recent
Publications
Some of the
latest
papers by
Team
Diagnostics'
founders, J.
Richard
Hackman &
Ruth
Wageman.
Asking the
Right
Questions
About
Leadership.
Discussion &
conclusions
by Richard
Hackman &
Ruth Wageman
in the
American
Psychologist
Special
Issue on
Leadership.
A Theory of
Team
Coaching.
A model of
team
coaching
that focuses
on the
functions
that
coaching
serves for a
team, rather
than on
either
specific
leader
behaviors or
leadership
styles, that
identifies
when
coaching
interventions
are most
likely to
have their
intended
effects, and
that
explicates
the
conditions
under which
team-focused
coaching is
and is not
likely to
facilitate
performance.
Using
brain-based
measures to
compose
teams.
Advances in
understanding
neural
processes
open the
possibility
of using
brain-based
measures to
compose
collaborative
work teams
and how
individual
capabilities
and team
collaboration
strategies
jointly
shape
performance.
Learning
more by
crossing
levels:
Evidence
from
airplanes,
hospitals &
orchestras.
The benefits
of research
and theory
that
'brackets'
one's focal
phenomenon
by attending
to
constructs
at both
higher and
lower levels
of analyses
are
illustrated
with
findings
from
research on
aircraft
cockpit
crews,
hospital
patient care
teams, and
professional
musical
ensembles
Other
recent
literature
on the
factors
involved in
team
building &
effectiveness
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