A new understanding of disruptive change is just one of many lessons we have learned over the past five years. A hard one that has left us disoriented, but open to improvement. We live in an ever-changing world with IT challenges that are growing in both size and complexity.
Meeting these challenges and turning them into opportunities requires a creative, adaptable and effectively distributed team.

Understanding the underlying differences in diverse teams, such as differences in functional background, education or personality, can facilitate creativity or group problem solving - but only if a group process is well defined.

In this presentation we will explore the idea of group process and diversity beyond race/ethnicity, gender or age. What are the specific needs, requirements or strategies that need to be in place to create cohesive teams?

In this session I will present several books, studies, white papers and other materials to show how we can use and understand better team dynamics, personality and leadership structures.

- The Mix That Matters. Innovation Through Diversity by Rocío Lorenzo, Nicole Voigt
- The Secrets of Great Teamwork by Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen
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The Effectiveness of Teamwork Training on Teamwork Behaviors and Team Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Interventions by Desmond McEwan
- An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task by Andrew Mao
- Team Effectiveness in Software Development. Human and Cooperative Aspects in Team Effectiveness Models and Priorities for Future Studies by Torgeir Dingsøyr
- The Feedback Fallacy by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
- Supporting the productivity and wellbeing of remote workers:
 Lessons from COVID-19 by Thomas J. George, Leanne E. Atwater
- Role of empathy, emotional intelligence, transformational leadership of the project success by Rusan Nadiia, Kozyr Boris
- Psychological Empowerment and Project Success: The Role of Knowledge Sharing by Jabran Khan , Basharat Javed
- Employees’ perceptions of relational communication in full-time remote work in the public sector by Rasa Jamsena,
- Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gender differences in scholarly productivity and impact by Peter van den Besselaar, Ulf Sandstro