What are the essential ingredients for a winning team?

The best way to produce strong results in a team is -

To recruit individuals only from top universities where the most intelligent candidates are likely to be found

To test the intelligence of prospective members and to hire only the most intelligent people

To test the intelligence of prospective members and to hire only people who are moderately (rather than highly) intelligent

To de-emphasise the intelligence of prospective members and to look at other factors

A team of highly educated and intelligent individuals recruited from a top university -

Is likely to be an example of a team that is characterised by high cognitive diversity

Is likely to be composed of a low degree of ethnic diversity

Is likely to be an example of a team that is characterised by low or at best moderate cognitive diversity

Is likely to outperform a team of highly educated and intelligent individuals who have been gathered from several different universities

Social sensitivity -

Is a skill that is related to the understanding of emotions in other people

Is likely to be stronger in men than women

Tends to be inversely related to cognitive intelligence: in other words, people who are more cognitively intelligent may be poorer at the skill of social perceptiveness

Is stronger in individuals who have an either ethnically or cognitively diverse background

Social sensitivity -

Combined with high cognitive intelligence is likely to produce strong collective performance from a team

Is twice as important as cognitive intelligence in determining team performance

Is a much more important factor in determining how satisfied and happy members of the team feel than is cognitive intelligence

Is equally as important as cognitive intelligence in determining team performance

Cognitive diversity in teams -

Benefits teams only up to a certain point - beyond which it may impair team performance

Is a common feature of most professional service organisations

Is likely to be reduced when there are too many people in a team

Is strongly correlated with the collective intelligence and performance of teams

The research on cognitive diversity suggests that many organisations -

Should be wary of recruiting more diversely as having too much cognitive diversity could impair collective performance

Are not aware that cognitive diversity is an important factor related to team performance

Need to bring in more external support from outside parties in order to promote greater cognitive diversity within their teams

Could get better performance from their teams by making it a priority to promote cognitive diversity within teams

Equality of communication within teams -

Is as important as social sensitivity in terms of determining team collective intelligence and performance

Is a measure of the degree to which members feel that they feel safe in voicing contradictory or controversial opinions

Is a measure of the extent to which members feel that they are making similar levels of contribution to discussions within the team

Exhibits a curvilinear, inverted-U shaped relationship with team collective performance

In terms of improving equality of communication within teams, the main problem is that -

It is in practice very difficult to enforce rules giving all members of a team equal time to contribute

There are often quieter members within teams who are insufficiently assertive and who therefore do not speak up enough

Many leaders believe that they spend only an appropriate amount of time speaking during team discussions

Many leaders do not agree that equality of communication would boost team performance

The knowledge audit technique -

Is an intervention that must be run by an external facilitator who has been trained in the knowledge auditing process

Is a method developed by Elli Theobald at Tilburg University

Involves asking every member of the team to rate the extent to which his or her own skills and knowledge are relevant to each task at hand

Is likely to boost team performance because it encourages the team to focus on the contributions of those members who have the most relevant skills and knowledge rather than those individuals who are usually most talkative

In terms of the factors that contribute to team collective intelligence and performance -

It is likely that equality of communication is of equal importance as social sensitivity

It is likely that social sensitivity is of greater importance than equality of communication

Equality of communication is easier for leaders to affect than social sensitivity unless a leader has significant say in the composition of team members

Leaders should bring in external consultants to train members of the team in order to boost their social sensitivity

What are the essential ingredients for a winning team?

The best way to produce strong results in a team is -

A team of highly educated and intelligent individuals recruited from a top university -

Social sensitivity -

Social sensitivity -

Cognitive diversity in teams -

The research on cognitive diversity suggests that many organisations -

Equality of communication within teams -

In terms of improving equality of communication within teams, the main problem is that -

The knowledge audit technique -

In terms of the factors that contribute to team collective intelligence and performance -

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