By Jennifer E. Cross and Hannah Love
How can we improve the creativity and performance of research teams?
Recent studies on team performance have pointed out that the performance and creativity of teams has more to do with the social processes of interaction on teams, than on individual personality traits. Research on creativity and innovation in teams has found that there are three key predictors of team success:
- group membership,
- rules of engagement, and
- patterns of interaction.
Each of these three predictors can be influenced in order to improve the performance of teams, as the following examples show.