Team Development Interventions (TDI) – Definitions

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• Team Training: "Formalized, structured learning experience[s] with preset objectives and curriculum that target specific team competencies" (Lacerenza et al., 2018, p. 519).
• Feedback: “Information provided to a team to guide its activities” (Handke et al. 2022 p. 42)
• Team Building: “An intervention designed to foster improvement within a team, providing individuals closely involved with the task with the strategies and information needed to solve their own problems… [through] (a) goal setting, (b) interpersonal-relationship management, (c) role clarification, and (d) problem solving” (Lacerenza et al., 2018, p. 523).
• Team Charters: "An intervention which focuses on the development of team processes and in turn the development of emergent states…Some common content addressed in [team charters] includes purpose/mission statements, operating guidelines, behavioral norms, and performance management processes" (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 719).
• Team Task Analysis: “A tool through which critical taskwork and teamwork KSAOs can be identified. Typically subsumed under the umbrella of “job analysis,” a task analysis is a critical part of the process whereby job tasks are defined in terms of objectively identifiable activities" (Burke & Howell, R., 2018, p. 21).
• Team Composition: "The process of selecting, excluding, or removing individuals for a team based on individual  member attributes relevant to and necessary for team effectiveness" (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 51).
• Team Work Design: “A definition and structure of a team’s tasks, goals, and members’ roles; and the creation of organizational support for the team and link to the broader organizational context” (Morgeson & Humprhey, 2008, p. 46).
• Team Performance Monitoring and Assessment: “The capturing of both individual and team levels of processes and performance, preferably from a dynamic lens where continual monitoring is available throughout a performance episode” (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 12).
• Cross-Training: “A team training strategy which trains each team member [on] the duties and responsibilities of their teammates” (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 18).
• Guided Team Self-Correction: “A team development strategy designed to enable teams to enhance their performance. Team self-correction involves developing the team’s ability to diagnose their behavior in terms of specific topics that should be discussed during debriefings and how they conduct the discussion of the specific topics identified” (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 18).
• Team Coordination Training: “[A TDI that] targets the improvement of a team’s shared mental model framework” (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 19).
• Crew Resource Management Training: “[An intervention] designed to improve teamwork by teaching team members to use all available resources (e.g., information, equipment, and people) through effective team coordination and communication” (Shuffler et al., 2018, p. 19).
• Leadership Training: “Interventions systematically designed to enhance leader knowledge, skills, abilities, and other components. The intent of these programs is to ensure participants are able to act effectively in formally appointed leadership roles and engage in successful leadership behaviors” (Lacerenza et al., 2018, p. 521).
• Communication Training: “[A TDI] focused on listening and problem solving…[and how to] speak up, pay attention, and respond quickly” (Raley et al., 2017, p. 177).
• Team Debrief: “[A TDI in which] team members reflect on a recent experience, discuss what went well, identify opportunities for improvement and agree on what they will do going forward” (Tannenbaum & Greilich, 2023, p. 125).