Energizing individuals to change relationships with other team members
is the prime objective of team building. FIRO-B was found to be a power
ful stimulus to change, although individual team members did not report
other team members' behavior as being consistent with their FIRO-B
scores. Furthermore, post-FIRO-B scores did not reflect actual behav
ioral change.
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