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AHFE 2019: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership pp 422–434Cite as

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Novel Team Development Intervention on Teamwork

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The aim of the present research was to determine whether a brief, domain agnostic team training intervention could improve the teamwork of newly formed teams. Eight teams of five participants received training in submarine command and control before being randomly assigned to receive either a teamwork training intervention, or a cognitively matched control. Teamwork behaviors were measured during task performance pre- and post-intervention via observer-rated frequency counts. Preliminary analyses suggest that teams who received this novel intervention improved teamwork behaviors to a greater extent than control teams.

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    Leonie V. Webster, Aaron P. J. Roberts & Neville A. Stanton

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Webster, L.V., Roberts, A.P.J., Stanton, N.A. (2020). Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Novel Team Development Intervention on Teamwork. In: Kantola, J., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20154-8_39

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