Cognitive readiness for complex team performance

Abstract

Researchers have recently begun to articulate factors associated with cognitive readiness. For the most part, these efforts have focused on individual performance. However, it is apparent that many modern tasks require workers to perform as part of a team. This may impose additional cognitive readiness demands. This chapter extends the work on cognitive readiness to the area of team performance. The authors describe a set of candidate skills that may indicate cognitive readiness for teamwork.