Geeks and Bookworms: Can't We Work Together? > Teamwork and Technology in the Workplace

Promoting Teamwork

• Ensure the conditions for effective teams:
  1. supply training for the skills the team needs to make decisions
  2. articulate the boundaries of the team's decision-making capabilities
  3. provide a process by which the team receives it's decision-making authority
• Reward good work
• Provide strategies for coaching when performance falls below expectations
• Identify roadblocks and clear them out of the way
• Provide an inter- and intra-area "interaction space"