By Sunday Tollefson, MBA, PMP® 

This week's microlearning subject is the seventh in a nine-part series from the book "How to be a Star at Work: 9 Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed" by Robert E Kelley.

The seventh strategy is TEAMWORK.

Teamwork gets a lot of lip service but research shows that it's the least rewarded activity for a corporate worker. As such, stars limit their involvement in and maximize their use of time on teams. How can you replicate their behaviors?

• Ask yourself whether you're appropriate for the team, whether the team really needs you, your knowledge, your expertise, your point of view, to get the job done. Are you critical to its success? 
• Stars are selective about team commitments. Consider only those teams that are absolutely required for you to complete your work at a high level of productivity, that are necessary to build goodwill with your work colleagues, or that you want to join for personal reasons.
• What do you do when you have a...