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Building a Dream Team

Sometimes teams seem to click without too
much effort, working together seamlessly
and producing great work as a result. Other
collaborations crash and burn. A team's
1.success often depends on its composition,
as Bell and her co-authors describe in their
contribution to the special issue.
Surface-level attributes of individual
team members—such as age, gender and
reputation—can be important to the team's
overall function, but they aren't necessarily
the factors that matter most, Bell says.
Instead, it's the "deep-level" factors you
can't see at a glance, such as the members'
2. personality traits, values and abilities,
that tend to have a much bigger impact on
work teams, studies suggest.
Those deep-level factors shape what
researchers call the ABCs of teamwork: the
attitudes, behaviors and cognitive states that
collectively influence whether a team
achieves its goals. Those elements depend to
some degree on the context and on the
team's objectives, Bell says. If the goal is to
design 3. an innovative new digital device,
it's a good idea to build a team with diverse
thinkers who bring a range of knowledge,
skills and abilities to the project. But if a
team's goal is to be more efficient, diverse
attitudes might be 4. less critical.
5. Team success also hinges on
some basic tenets of team composition, say
Bell and her co-authors. One person's mood
and outlook can spread within a team, so a
pessimistic team member could
6. negatively influence the way the whole
group views its goals. Individuals who value
working in groups tend to be both more
confident and more cooperative in a team
setting. When team members are high in
7. conscientiousness, they are better at self-
regulating their teamwork. And groups
composed of high-ability members who are
able to learn, reason, adapt and solve
problems are more likely to work well
together.
Researchers are working to design
algorithms that help organizations create
effective teams for specific goals. In a from the outset and tailor interventions for
project with NASA, for instance, Bell and the unique needs of a team with a specific
8. colleagues are developing algorithms to composition. "Teams are 9. complex
identify crew members suited to working system," Bell says. "The more you can
together on long-distance space missions. manage them using a scientific basis, the
Ultimately, such tools can help better your teams will be."
organizations create the best possible teams

Answer the questions based on the article above!

1. How many factors do an individual influence work teams?
2. What level does a team work get a high impact?
3. What are Bell’s suggestion when a team work plans to create 4.0 appliance?
4. How can pessimistic person affect other people?
5. What is the positive impact from people’s mood and outlook within a teamwork?
6. Why do you think a teamwork is important?
7. In the last paragraph, Bell says "The more you can manage them using a scientific basis,
the better your teams will be." What does it mean?