for nasa's purposes, a team is commonly understood to be a collection of individuals that is assigned to support and achieve a particular mission. one way of selecting for teams is to identify those individuals who are best suited to work in teams, ensuring that each individual team member possesses the qualities and skills that lend themselves to optimal teamwork. many organizations use competency frameworks to select individuals utilizing a "team-working" competency that measures how an individual works with other team members (support, knowledge sharing, etc.). these "teamwork" competencies have been shown to help predict individual performance in teams.