Analysing team skills

Let me begin by making some non-controversial statements about the analysis of team skills. First, the classic methods of task analysis describe the duties and tasks of individuals. Consequently there is no standard format in which to represent the duties and tasks of teams and this leads to problems in defining requirements for manning, training and performance evaluation which tend to be solved in an ad hoc manner, if at all. Second, an indefinitely large and growing list of behaviour patterns have been identified by different investigators as 'team skills' (Cannon-Bowers, Tannenbaum, Salas & Volpe, 1995).