{"id":79151,"date":"2022-02-26T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=79151"},"modified":"2022-02-26T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:41:11","slug":"why-some-teams-boost-motivation-while-others-totally-sap-it-torka-mazei-huffmeieris-huston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/26\/why-some-teams-boost-motivation-while-others-totally-sap-it-torka-mazei-huffmeieris-huston\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some teams boost motivation while others totally sap it [Torka, Mazei, Huffmeieris, &#038; Huston]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psyche.co\/ideas\/why-some-teams-boost-motivation-while-others-totally-sap-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why some teams boost motivation while others totally sap it<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from psyche.co by Ann-Kathrin Torka, Jens Mazei, Joachim H\u00fcffmeieris, and edited by Matt Huston. With thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tombarrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Tom Barrett<\/a> for this resource via <a href=\"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his weekly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In contrast, when people perceive their contribution to the team\u2019s outcome as\u00a0<em>in<\/em>dispensable, they tend to show greater effort than they would when working alone. These \u2018effort gains\u2019 can be due to team members aiming to be prosocial: they care about others and want to make a difference to the team. By helping their team succeed, members also feel better about themselves \u2013 they can see themselves as helpful and competent human beings.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nManagers, instructors, coaches, and other leaders can use this knowledge to design teamwork that boosts team members\u2019 efforts. Remember the student from the introduction: maybe she felt that she could not contribute much to the academic team because the project did not include a specific (sub-)taskfor her to work on and to feel responsible for. If the instructor or a teammate had broken down the project into subtasks for each member, she might have felt that her efforts were indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why some teams boost motivation while others totally sap it &#8212; from psyche.co by Ann-Kathrin Torka, Jens Mazei, Joachim H\u00fcffmeieris, and edited by Matt Huston. With thanks to Mr. Tom Barrett for this resource via his weekly newsletter. Excerpts: In contrast, when people perceive their contribution to the team\u2019s outcome as\u00a0indispensable, they tend to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,127,115,498,302,260,112,200,343,141,71,3,119,46,825,102,7,838,406,62,279,66,89,50,188,118,214,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-education","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-motivation","category-online-learning","category-participation","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-training-corporate-universities","category-universities","category-using-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79154,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79151\/revisions\/79154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}