Editing Team (section)

====Coaching differences between interdependent and independent teams====
[[Coaching]] an interdependent team like a [[football]] team necessarily requires a different approach from coaching an independent team like a [[gymnastics]] team, because the costs and benefits to individual team members—and therefore the intrinsic incentives for positive team behaviors—differ markedly. An interdependent team benefits from members getting to know the other team members socially, from developing trust in each other, and from conquering artificial collective challenges (such as those offered in outdoors [[ropes course]]s){{citation needed|date=April 2016}}. Interdependent teams respond well to collective rewards, and independent teams perform better with individual rewards.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title = The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dbTRBgAAQBAJ |publisher = HarperCollins Publishers India |date = 2015-01-15 |isbn = 9789351770220 |language = nl |first = Lynda |last = Gratton |pages = 40–41}}</ref>

Hybrid teams and hybrid rewards, which try to combine characteristics of both, are sometimes created in the hope of getting the best of both types.  However, instead, they tend instead to produce the negative features of each and none of the benefits, and consequently under-perform.<ref name=":1" />{{qn|date=April 2016}}

Pressuring teams to become independent or interdependent, on the grounds that management has decided that one type is intrinsically better than the other, results in failure.<ref name=":2" />  The nature of the team is defined by the type of work that is done, and not by management's wishes or by the fashions of the latest [[management fad]].