In this module, we looked at four common types of teams and strategies that you can employ right now to help your team work together more effectively. First, we talked about remote teams. Particular communication challenges arise on remote teams, which may be navigating differences in norms across workplaces or national cultures. In the absence of face-to-face meetings, team members need to pay special attention to ensuring mutual understanding of intentions and actions. Derek talked about concrete ways to make remote located team members work together more effectively and walked you through case examples of principles and practice. Then, Derek spoke to you about start up teams. In today's working world, many organizations have the start up mindset in their culture, even if they're not traditional start ups. In these organizations, things need to be done more quickly, efficiently, and effectively than ever before. With speed as the biggest barrier to collaboration, the style in which you check in with your team needs to match to the needs of your fast-paced environment. In start up teams, relationships and trust are critical to the survival in the ever-changing environment of start ups. Derek gave you ideas about how to slow down when you do need to, so that you can adjust team issues when they arise. Then, you and I talked about teams tasked with developing a specific product or service within a larger organization. These development teams tend to suffer most commonly from groupthink, which prevents them from being truly innovative and giving unique ideas. We discussed IDEO's rigorous and innovative methods that spur creativity and high performance in product teams. These elements helped you to decide which methods would work best for you to build competitive advantage in your own teams. Finally, you and I talked about committees. In this type of team, performance tends to suffer due to a lack of engagement and competing priorities. We step through a case study at a University in the Northeast of the United States, in order to illustrate How to encourage high performance and what biases to be aware of on these types of teams. Using the strategies we discussed earlier, you can inspire passion and commitment on the committees where you participate. Even if you weren't involved in each of these types of teams, the lessons learned can apply to various types of teams. In any group, you need to pay attention to the process by which you set goals, roles, and norms and come up with a strategy for checking in and communicating. The team examples in this module provide strategies to combat issues of distance, time pressure, groupthink, and low commitment, which are barriers that any team could run up against. Congratulations, you've made it through the course. See you next time.