An Integrative View of Teams: Team Feedback Dashboards

Abstract

In this research-to-practice paper, we present parts of a visual team feedback dashboard generated for 12 industry engineering design teams from various technical fields. All teams were asked to generate conceptual prototypes in response to the same design prompt. Multiple streams of data were collected and analyzed to create feedback dashboards for these engineering design teams. The feedback dashboard aims to capture an integrative view of teams by providing feedback on three levels, including design outcome level, team level, and personal level. The study results have implications for educators, practitioners, and team leaders in terms of stimulating discussion among team members, reinforcing future team behavior, and extracting strategies to improve future team performance, ultimately leading towards more engaged teams and a more highly skilled workforce.