"This study sought to advance understanding of how to effectively train knowledge-building and decision-making teams in both taskwork and teamwork skills by comparing the effectiveness of two training strategies. The first is a traditional holistic strategy that focuses trainee attention to both taskwork and teamwork skill development simultaneously. The second is a strategy inspired by Kozlowski et al.'s (1999) normative model of team development that shifts the focus of attention from taskwork first and then teamwork skill development. Although the shifting focus strategy resulted in superior team knowledge outcomes, no differences were found in decision-making performance. Potential reasons for lack of support for hypotheses were suggested, and a re-design of the study was proposed."--Abstract.
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