Shared work — TEAMING WITH IDEAS — Carlos Valdes-Dapena

Credo #8 Trust and stronger relationships are important but they’re not the starting point

Conventional team building events may be fun, scary, even interesting, but they don’t do much to change the ways people work together. Any benefits they do yield fade quickly in the face of the day-to-day pressures of work. But, when relationship building reinforces meaningful, shared work, it strengthens results and creates bonds that endure no matter our differences.

Team TrustCarlos Valdes-DapenaAugust 31, 2020team relationships, Shared workComment

Credo #5: Irresistible collaboration includes shared goals, but relies on shared work

Instead of fostering teamwork, shared goals drive more individual effort. But where’s the collaboration? There isn’t any. Shared work, by contrast, focuses collaborative effort. Should they also share goals? Sure, that’s how they will know they achieve what they set out to do. But it is the specific work a team shares that ignites powerful collaborative behaviors.

Team LeadershipCarlos Valdes-DapenaJuly 31, 2020Shared work, shared goals, Individual achievement motiveComment

Shared Work Not Shared Goals Unlock Collaboration

There’s a common fallacy that shared goals is how you do that. Goals motivate people, right? So shouldn’t it make sense that goals would do the same for people collaborating? I learned at Mars that it’s not so. Goals matter, but they don’t motivate collaboration.