Trust, Anxiety, Commitment and Knowledge (TACK) : Emotional Learning in Project Teams

Any team is at bottom really a metaphor for the synergies resulting from a bunch of conversations and related actions of a set of individuals who, because they share some core values, are able to cooperate to achieve a common task. Team development then is about the extent of cooperative development and shared values that are held in common between this set of people. In other words, it is basically how quickly the team matures and how well they bond together. Such bonding occurs across a number of planes of development. Cooperative bonds may, at any time, encompass each of such planes or levels of existence separately or jointly in multifarious ways which often enfold each other and amplify the outcomes holistically, providing synergies that are larger than the sum of the parts. I mean the kind of results whereby you get more out than would normally be expected by simply adding together all the parts, i.e. 2 2 =5. Often this outcome is sought in vain in our favorite sports teams — unfortunately. It is a weird, emotional physics that many have experienced in various places and times. For instance, it exists in some work teams, religious organizations, sports team, families, communities, classes and so on