This program of research investigates the interpersonal and psychological processes by which teams get better at creating new things, with a focus on helping. The research examines how people working in teams recognize when they need help, seek it, and use it – as well as how people outside the teams recognize that the teams need help, offer it, and give it effectively. We study initiation, type, and timing of help, with the aim of discovering how and when it can be given and used to most benefit creative productivity in teams.