Team-Based Learning

This chapter introduces the idea of learning and draws on some examples to illustrate that team-based learning has always been an activity of the human species and why it is advantageous and why teams that do not learn together are destructive. Annotation There are 2 skills or competencies that appear almost without fail in every organization's 'wish-list" for the next decade: the ability to work well within a team and the ability to learn. But what if the 2 concepts are effectively synonymous? This book shows how the ability to learn lies at the heart of effective working in teams. The book identifies the ingredients that turn good teams into teams that improve. Includes the tools for managing the process, the skills of learning & communicating within the team. It also provides a strategy for everyone involved in the process: the team leader, whose behavior is so influential to team culture & performance; the team member, who needs to understand how they can affect the process & needs the motivation to become involved; The training department, who needs to create a climate in which team-based learning can flourish The author demonstrates that the ability to learn lies at the heart of effective working in teams. His book identifies the ingredients that turn good teams into teams that improve, and includes the tools for managing the process, the skills of learning and communicating within the team. It also provides a strategy for everyone involved: the team leader, whose behaviour influences team culture and performance; the team member, who needs to understand how he or she can affect the process and needs the motivation to become involved; and the training department, who need to create a climate in which team-based learning can flourish Annotation "Howard Hills' Team-Based Learning shows how the ability to learn lies at the heart of effective working in teams. His book identifies the ingredients that turn good teams into teams that improve."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Howard Hills. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [150]-151) And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.