Team Performance

You might think the success of a team depends on the individual team members’ skills. However, to a great extent it depends on 5 specific factors that can predict with accuracy how well a team will perform:

1. Everyone in the group talks and listens in equal measure, keeping contributions short.
2. Members maintain high levels of eye contact, and their conversations and gestures are energetic.
3. Members communicate directly with one another.
4. Members carry on side conversations within the team.
5. Members periodically break, go exploring outside the team, and bring information back to share with the others.