Collaborative Leadership Basics: Why Team Member Motivation Is a Better Predictor of Team Effectiveness Than Are Technical Skills

by Christopher M. Avery

In my last Advisor (Collaborative Leadership Basics, Part 5: Why Project Teams Are Easier to Build Than Management Teams, 9 November 2006), I told you that project teams are the most straight-forward teams in which to develop high-performance dynamics because they fit the classic laboratory definition of a team. In this Advisor, I'll reveal why motivation is more important than technical skill set in predicting team effectiveness.

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Collaborative Leadership Basics: Why Team Member Motivation Is a Better Predictor of Team Effectiveness Than Are Technical SkillsThu Dec 14 08:12:42 CDT 2006

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