Effective teamwork is indispensable for sustaining organizational competitiveness and long-term success. An important determinant of team effectiveness is team expertise, that is, the ability to effectively leverage upon the knowledge and expertise of all team members. In this book chapter, we provide a critical review of the team reflection research to argue that team reflection is an important driver for the development and attainment of expertise in teams.

Otte, K.-P., Knipfer, K., & Schippers, M. C. (2018). Team reflection: A catalyst of team development and the attainment of expertise. In P. Ward, J. M. Schraagen, J. Gore, & E. Roth (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Expertise: Research & Application (pp. 1–24). Online First.

This is research I did together with Kai-Philip Otte and Michaéla Schippers.

You may also be interested in our new paper on the significance of team reflection in pre-founding entrepreneurial teams:

Knipfer, K., Schreiner, E., Schmid, E., & Peus, C. (2018). The performance of pre-founding entrepreneurial teams: The importance of learning and leadership. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 67(3), 401–427.

You want to use of the power of team reflection in your own team? Check out my guidelines for a successful and impactful team reflection session (in German).