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Innovative Team Building Practices for Professionals: Developing Inter-Group Skills to Enhance Effective Performance

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The complexities of bringing teams of professionals together to work in a sustained and effective manner toward a common goal are considerable. The necessary inter-group skills involved are often not a part of most professional preparation programs. This article describes an innovative workshop for secondary preservice teachers which targeted the development of communication, problem solving, and team building. Results are promising. Any team of individuals, whether it be a group of professors, a program that utilizes a cohort model (a group of individuals who go through a program or process together), or simply a group needing to develop effective inter-group skills, may benefit from similar workshops. The article invites continued discussion and research concerning the training of professionals in team building and inter-group skills.

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  1. California State University, San Marcos

    Mark D. Baldwin & Joseph F. Keating

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  1. Mark D. Baldwin
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Baldwin, M.D., Keating, J.F. Innovative Team Building Practices for Professionals: Developing Inter-Group Skills to Enhance Effective Performance. Innovative Higher Education 22, 291–309 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025149424436

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