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Very few people do their jobs entirely on their own. For most of us, our work is enmeshed with other people's work, and doing our job well

often means being part of a well-functioning team.

The stakes of teamwork can be high, especially in workplaces where errors have dire consequences,

such as emergency rooms or air traffic control towers. In those settings, a breakdown in teamwork can be the difference between life and death.

Over the past decades, psychologists' research has helped organizations from hospitals to military units to airlines

develop better functioning and more effective teams. So what does good teamwork look like?

What are the key ingredients of a highly effective team versus one that's a dysfunctional mess?

And what does good team training include? Do you have to like your coworkers to function as an

effective team? Is it possible to make any team work together? Also, what are the

differences between working on remote versus in-person teams? Or are teamwork issues the same,

whether you're seeing each other in person or on Zoom? Welcome to Speaking of Psychology,

the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between

psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills.

My guest today is Dr. Eduardo Salas, a professor and chair of the Department of Psychological

Sciences at Rice University.

He is an industrial organizational and human factors

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