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Team greatness comes from regularly applying ideas, but It’s only sustained by teams learning to learn together. When a group finds its rhythm of learning, the payoff is massive. Work products and team dynamics improve. Relationships deepen. The bar of success is continually raised. A team spirit emerges that’s lasting and meaningful to everyone. That’s good news for the team as a whole, for each team member and for the organization.
Read MoreConventional 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.
Read MoreThe words, “team” and “teamwork” have become hollow jargon and overused hashtags. I call it “teaminess”, and a waste of money. Collaboration is the foundational element of all group work. Whether you call yourselves a team, a group, a community or a committee, what matters is knowing which work requires collaboration – and which doesn’t. Then it’s about getting the right people involved in the right ways. It’s simple, it’s practical and it makes genuine collaboration possible.
Read MoreThere is a presumption that you have to build trust to create a great team. I see it differently. Trust is not a necessary precursor for effective teamwork. Trust is an outcome of people collaborating on meaningful work. Read this to find out more.
Read MoreYou come to this third Practice knowing why your collaboration matters, which work requires collaboration, and who should be doing it. Cultivate Collaboration is the payoff for all that work. It is about contracting, connecting individuals to the work of the team. Cultivate Collaboration is about creating more intentional collaboration. In fact, it’s the only Practice that is directly aligned to Intentionality.
Read MoreNeither “Real Team” nor size nor description of your team or group matters. Whether you’re called a council, a committee, or a board the same thinking about units of collaboration applies. Focus on the work needing collaboration and get on with it.
Read MoreTypical team building can be fun. If nothing else it offers a break from the same-old, same-old back at the office or factory. But fostering “teaminess”, that shallow, short-lived version of team spirit, will not make your team better. If you want a stronger team work together on things that matter.
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