"Team" Attitude (3)

To prevent the loss of team feeling generally associated with de-centralized organization, you need to actively promote the "team" attitude.  Additionally, a well functioning team is a basic premise for an effective group.  Here are some suggestions for fostering the team attitude:

• Hold regular team meetings.  

• Encourage social interactions through things such as
  • regular lunch meetings
  • work-related coffee breaks

• Encourage team members who are working on specific projects to consult and discuss any issues or problems being dealt with on their project with other members of the human factors team.  Make it clear that asking for help is not only acceptable, but encouraged.