Conor Dalton
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The Relationship Between Five Key Dynamics of Successful Teams,
Team-Efficacy, and Team Performance
Using survey tools, I measured the three metric is team-efficacy, which comes
milestone over four months to see if in individuals and teams. Team-efficacy is
SMU Guildhall capstone teams at each
there is a relationship between five t eam
dynamics and team-efficacy, which can in
turn be used to predict team performance.
I found there was a strong positive
relationship between the two. I also
the confidence individuals in a team have
that their group can accomplish tasks
and solve problems. Teams that have high
team-efficacy are also high performers.
learned that if a leader wants to improve In a highly collaborative industry like
more structural approach using the five game design, team leaders and project
their team performance, they can use a
team dynamics, or a more psychological
approach using team-efficacy, since their
relationship is so significantly correlated.
The first metric used in the study is “the
five dynamics of highly successful teams.”
In a 2016 internal research study by
Google, the company discovered that high
performing teams shared high scores in
the five key team dynamics: psychological
safety, dependability, structure and
clarity, meaning, and impact. The second
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from Albert Bandura’s research of belief
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software product development and video
managers like myself are always seeking
ways to improve team performance.
My study gives team leaders tools to
measure team dynamics and team-
efficacy, indicates which tools should
be used in which instances, and gives
suggestions for how future research could
be performed to further understand and
improve these metrics.