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We compared the strategies used by teams with the highest level of performance to those used by the lowest-performing teams to evaluate the frequency and methods of communications used as a function of task structure.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>High-performing teams share information by anticipating the needs of their teammates rather than explicitly requesting the exchange of information. As the complexity of a task increases to involve more interdependence among teammates, the impact of coordination on team performance also increases. This observation motivated us to conduct a study of anticipatory information sharing as a function of task complexity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted an experiment in which 13 teams of four people performed collaborative search-and-deliver tasks with varying degrees of complexity in a simulation environment. We elaborated upon prior characterizations of communication as implicit versus explicit by dividing implicit communication into two subtypes: (a) deliberative\/goal information and (b) reactive status updates. We then characterized relationships between task structure, implicit communication, and team performance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We found that the five teams with the fastest task completion times and lowest idle times exhibited higher rates of deliberative communication versus reactive communication during high-complexity tasks compared with the five teams with the slowest completion times and longest idle times ( p = .039).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Teams in which members proactively communicated information about their next goal to teammates exhibited improved team performance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Application<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings from our work can inform the design of communication strategies for team training to improve performance of complex tasks.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0018720816639712","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,25]],"date-time":"2016-04-25T23:54:24Z","timestamp":1461628464000},"page":"595-610","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":90,"title":["Implicit Coordination Strategies for Effective Team Communication"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"Abhizna","family":"Butchibabu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher","family":"Sparano-Huiban","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liz","family":"Sonenberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Melbourne, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Julie","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0018720816639712","volume-title":"Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology","author":"Blickensderfer E.","year":"1997"},{"key":"bibr2-0018720816639712","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1518\/001872098779480550"},{"key":"bibr3-0018720816639712","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/256142"},{"key":"bibr4-0018720816639712","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/014920630002600304"},{"key":"bibr5-0018720816639712","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/154193120004400120"},{"key":"bibr6-0018720816639712","volume-title":"Organizational structure and adaptation in the joint command and control domain","author":"Entin E. 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