Today, the vast majority of businesses have a team-based configuration, with companies large and small staking their future competitiveness on teams and teamwork. However, though employees are organized into teams, managers and team leaders are still trying to figure out how to lead those groups effectively, understand team dynamics, measure and influence team performance, and derive the fundamental value in a team-based structure.

In this whitepaper we examine why teams have become the central production unit within organizations, why so many organizations struggle with creating and managing effective teams, and how the same science-based solutions that have successfully been used to understand individual behaviors can now be applied at the group level to optimize collective performance and improve business results.