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Analyzing the Team-Building Practices: Integrating Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Facilitating Creative Thinking by Leaders
Barkova K. O.

Barkova, Kateryna O. (2026) “Analyzing the Team-Building Practices: Integrating Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Facilitating Creative Thinking by Leaders.” Business Inform 1:499–508.
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2026-1-499-508

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Abstract:
The aim of this article is to integrate theoretical and practical approaches to team building as a tool that can enhance the creative thinking of teams through purposeful facilitation by leaders. The analysis, systematization, and synthesis of contemporary scientific publications reveal that team building creates the team’s «capacity assets», yet their conversion into creative outcomes occurs only through mechanisms of psychological safety and communicative behavior, which leaders support through specific facilitation actions. The study demonstrates that the key «bottlenecks» are the fragmentation of practices, insufficient operationalization of leaders’ «micro-actions», and the sensitivity of creative interaction to the hybrid context. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the proposal of the practical C-TEAM protocol, which combines team-building functions with a sequence of facilitation of creative thinking during everyday work discussions, as well as in the development of practically oriented recommendations for leadership facilitation actions that support the balance of divergence and convergence, reduce interpersonal risks, and enhance the quality of idea synthesis. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the possibility of using the proposed logic and protocol by team leaders to improve the effectiveness of creative problem-solving in hybrid interaction settings. Prospects for further research in this area include the empirical testing of the efficiency of C-TEAM in various industries and types of teams, comparison of results for hybrid, fully offline, and online formats, as well as clarification of the conditions under which specific leadership facilitation actions have the greatest impact on psychological safety, communication behavior, and the quality of creative outcomes.

Keywords: team building, creative thinking, facilitation, leadership, psychological safety, hybrid teams, communication behavior, design thinking.

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Barkova Kateryna O. – PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Business and Administration, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics (9a Nauky Ave., Kharkiv, 61166, Ukraine)
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