Story-telling, well-organized, or solution-focused meeting? Investigation of behavior-based group profiles and group performance

Allen, J. A., & Lehmann-Willenbrock, N. (2023). Story-telling, well-organized, or solution-focused meeting? Investigation of behavior-based group profiles and group performance. Small Group Research. DOI: 10.1177/10464964231182098.

Insights into the behavioral profile of groups during meetings help us understand why some groups outperform others on meeting and work tasks. The presented studies investigate behavior-based group profiles in meetings and their relation to group performance. A total of 101 problem-solving meetings took place in two studies in a laboratory setting; data were coded using the act4teams coding scheme and analyzed using INTERACT software. The findings indicate there are four distinct group profile clusters: story-telling, well-organized networking, solution-focused, and problem-focused profiles. These behavior-based group profiles were meaningfully and differentially linked to group performance in the context of a meeting task.