Developing teams that work together effectively.

We positively reshape team experiences through research-driven methods and a strengths-based approach.

Our Methodology

We create opportunities to reshape teaming experiences by having the Georgia Institute of Technology community ask themselves three key questions:

1

Who Am I?

What makes me unique? What talents do I have? How do I approach things? How do I express what I do best and what excites/energizes me?

2

How Do I Team?

How do I interact with others? How do I understand the diversity that others have? How can I see what others bring to the table? How do I bring my best self to the team?

3

How Do We Team?

What conversations do we need to have to understand and navigate through team dynamics? How can our team work interdependently to get excellent outcomes?

We Work with All Teams

Undergraduate students, graduate students,
faculty & staff, and all professionals!

How to Handle Group Conflict as a Student

By Mike Lehman Undergraduate and graduate students commonly need to complete tasks and projects in groups. Team collaboration in a classroom setting is often a way to distribute the workload to complete a project seamlessly. Still, certain group work challenges can...

NRT-IGE: Integrating Team Science into the STEM Graduate Training Experience Outcomes Report

This grant supported the development and deployment of an innovation in graduate education which uses the results of the science-of-team-science literature, draws on best practices in teamwork, as well as our own research to develop leaders in engineering practice....

3 Ways To Promote Effective Remote Collaborations

By Spencer Chalifour Working in teams has countless advantages, but it’s also very easy for collaborative projects to go awry. Previous articles for this blog have described how group members can learn from each other and pool their strengths together to approach...

CliftonStrengths in Action: An Interview With ETD Facilitator DeMarco Williams

By Spencer Chalifour For the past two years, DeMarco Williams has served as the project manager for the marketing and digital strategy team at Georgia Tech. His work often involves projects marketed to people wanting to return and continue their education. “It’s...

Strategies for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations

By Mike Lehman The terms “interdisciplinary” and “interdisciplinary collaboration” are used frequently across academic institutions. A quick Google search results in over 100,000 uses of these terms in relation to Georgia Tech specifically. In our teaching, grant...

“It is as though the Five Finger Pulse Check gave the students permission and motivation to tell what was bothering them because I think we would not have learned about these issues otherwise. We made changes in the class meeting format and each sub-team had action items, resulting from the exercise. It was a great investment of our time and energy.”

Dr. Mary Ann Weitnauer

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

“I firmly believe that the implementation of Effective Team Dynamics into our curriculum has provided more tools to successfully communicate and resolve internal conflicts within a team.”

Dr. Chris Cuba-Torres

School of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Not only did my students learn more about how to identify their own strengths; they also learned more about how good teams consist of members with complementary strengths. Students ended up with higher functioning teams and some of the strongest team projects I’ve had delivered to me in nearly 10 years of teaching.”

Dr. Rebekah Greene

Campus Labs, University of Buffalo

“The process of learning each others’ strengths and making sure that tough conversations were being almost forced as a means to complete an assignment actually helped bring up some of the underlying issues that nobody really wanted to address.”

Undergraduate Student

Georgia Institute of Technology