Teamwork Training
Teamwork training encompasses the systematic efforts to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) that support effective team collaboration. Unlike technical skills training, which focuses on individual task proficiency, teamwork training targets the interpersonal and coordinative competencies that allow team members to work together effectively — communicating clearly, anticipating one another’s needs, backing each other up, and adapting to changing conditions.
The field of teamwork training has grown substantially over the past three decades, driven in large part by research on team performance in high-stakes domains such as aviation, military operations, and medicine. This work has yielded a range of validated training strategies — including crew resource management (CRM), Team Dimensional Training (TDT), and TeamSTEPPS — that have been adapted for use across a wide variety of organizational settings.
Research on teamwork training has examined both the design of training programs and their effectiveness. Key questions include: What KSAs are most important to target? What training methods most effectively build these competencies? How can training be designed to transfer to real team performance? And how can the effects of training be sustained over time? This section of the website provides an overview of the major theoretical frameworks, evidence-based strategies, and practical tools that comprise the science of teamwork training.