As team researchers have endeavored to understand team performance and team training, feedback in the team environment has been a neglected topic. A number of issues are involved in the design and provision of feedback to teams. These include team process/outcome issues in addition to characteristics of the task, team as a whole, and the team members as individuals. The inherent problems in team feedback provide the impetus for considering new approaches to team feedback. One such approach, team self-correction, may be valuable in clarifying anticipations and explanations among team members.
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