How to Turn a Group of Strangers Into a Team

In the age of virtual meetings, a team is a group of people who may or may not be physically located across the meeting table from each other. They could be spread across the country or around the world. Sometimes the team consists of representatives of different departments or have different roles in the project. The one thing they may have in common? Many times they are strangers who need to work together to achieve a goal.

Professor Amy Edmondson studied this "teeming" concept and how leaders can use research into a coal mining accident in Chile to improve how you build a great team among a group of strangers.

After viewing Professor Edmondson's TedTalk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5EQW026alY,

List five specific things you can do to build a great team: