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    Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects
    Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects
    Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects
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    Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects

    By Chantal Savelsbergh, Peter Storm and Ben Kuipers

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    In Learning For Success, authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different but complementary aims: to perform and to learn. Learning helps the performance of the current project and of future projects. It works in the reverse also: good performance stimulates the desire to become even better, which leads to discovering how to do it. In other words, good performance drives the desire to learn. How well do these principles bear out in practice? This book, subtitled How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects, presents research on whether team performance and team learning are positively related. Simple laboratory experiments have shown this to be the case, but the authors test to see whether or not the same holds true on real-world projects, which are more complex, longer and more difficult.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProject Management Institute
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781628251326
    Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects

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      Book preview

      Learning for Success - Chantal Savelsbergh

      Learning for Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects

      ISBN: 978-1-935589-05-1

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      Project Management Institute

      LEARNING FOR SUCCESS

      HOW TEAM LEARNING BEHAVIORS CAN HELP PROJECT TEAMS TO INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR PROJECTS

      Peter Storm, PhD, Chantal Savelsbergh, PhD, Ben Kuipers, PhD

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Executive Summary

      Why investigate team learning?

      What did we investigate?

      How did we execute the research?

      What are the results?

      How can project teams and their team leaders apply these results?

      Chapter 2: Introduction

      The research project

      Structure of this report

      Chapter 3: Project Success

      Project success criteria

      Project success factors

      The project team as a success factor

      Chapter 4: Role Stress

      The nature of role stress

      Role stress and team performance

      Chapter 5: Team Learning

      Knowledge exchange and learning in projects

      Team learning

      Chapter 6: Team Leadership

      Team leadership

      Leadership styles

      Leadership that promotes team learning

      Chapter 7: Research Method and Results

      Aims and research model

      Method

      Results

      Chapter 8: Conclusions and Implications

      Conclusions

      Theoretical implications

      Practical implications

      Appendix A: Author Contact Details

      Appendix B: Research Sample

      Approach

      Projects

      Team composition

      References

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to PMI for their generous support of this research.

      The success of a project to a large degree depends on the environment one is in and the people one is surrounded by. In this respect we were blessed to have been able to work with so many project managers, of whom many were willing to participate in our research attempts. We thank them all.

      As for the academic part of this research, special thanks go to Rob Poell, Beate van der Heijden, Josette Gevers, and Daphne van Kleef, who all have contributed extensively to making a success of study.

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