Learning for Success

Learning For Success explores the relationship between team performance and team learning based both on theory and on real-world projects. Authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different, but complementary, aims: to perform and to learn. Learning enhances the team's and project's performance, but good performance also makes the team want to become even better - which compels the team members to actively seek ways of improving. So what affects team learning, positively or negatively, and what can team leaders and managers do about it? Read how work-related (or role) stress plays a major part.

And how can leaders boost team learning and performance? The authors show how person-focused, participative leadership helps reach this goal. Finally, project teams and leaders alike will benefit from learning how communication, training and feedback can build team learning and performance.

Through a survey of 40 teams, their project managers and their sponsors, you II see that not only does role stress hurt team performance, but that it also hurts team ledrning, and that team learning helps team performance Bottom line: reduce role stress to aid team performance and project success.