Resource Library

Leading in an ethical way is more than simply ‘doing the right thing.’ Increasingly, ethical leadership is correlated with team performance—for instance, as this study shows, an ethically led team is better placed to bounce back from a period of poor performance. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

Online knowledge-sharing communities such as ‘Stack Overflow,’ which add billions of dollars of value in increased productivity, provide rich data sets around motivating collaborative behaviors and evidence on the pros and cons of nonmonetary reward systems, a tool used to motivate remote employees. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Cassandra Chambers

Leaders seeking to foster inclusivity should be aware that a team’s collective intelligence—its general ability to make decisions, innovate, plan, and more—is significantly influenced by its hierarchal structure and also by its gender composition. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Anna Mayo

Ineffective collaboration between physicians and nurses in acute healthcare settings is known to lead to substandard patient outcomes. A new review highlights the role of respect in promoting better interprofessional relationships, offering insights to help leaders encourage and maintain respectful attitudes and behavior. Featuring CIL Affiliates Anna Mayo and Derrick Bransby

Leaders today face unique challenges and new questions about how their teams should work together – particularly as organizations move to more flexible work arrangements and temporary team structures. This Field Guide highlights key practices that can be implemented quickly and seamlessly today as leaders reimagine their work in ways that keep employees engaged, fulfilled and productive.

In a New England Journal of Medicine article, CIL Faculty Anna Mayo and Chris Myers discuss opportunities for enhancing teamwork in healthcare.

CIL Core Faculty Brian Gunia interviewed in the Negotiations Ninja podcast to share more about bartering and discuss how powerful it can be in the negotiation process.

New research published in Administrative Science Quarterly by CIL Affiliate Faculty member Anna Mayo sheds light on teaming in dynamic work settings.

CIL Directors Mike Doyle and Chris Myers interviewed about leadership development in healthcare for this episode of HI Pitch, the AHIMA podcast

Learning vicariously from the experiences of others at work, such as those working on different teams or projects, has long been recognized as a driver of collective performance in organizations. In this Administrative Science Quarterly article, CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers draws on his research with air medical transport teams to uncover strategies for using storytelling as a collaborative tool to promote learning in teams.

New research in Academy of Management Discoveries, co-authored by CIL Faculty Affiliate Anna Mayo finds that greater coordinated attention and "bursty" communication allows teams to better translate their resources into effective performance outcomes.

Team members’ vicarious learning from other members’ knowledge and experience is a critical component of learning and performance in interdependent team work contexts. A new research article by CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers in the Academy of Management Journal explores a new way of thinking about and measuring this vicarious learning in team networks.