Practical approaches for more effective teamwork

[Chris Boys]

Enough said. Thank you @SethGodin.

Here's the trick: instead of scanning the list and seeing which most relate to team mates NOT doing, how about a reframe, and ask yourself which aspects you may need to level up on for yourself.

Feeling really brave? Ask your team which aspects they collectively think they're lagging on and want to focus improving.

Name the period to focus on it.

Agree how you'll call out when it's not being done.

Commit.



💜Umano

[Sandra Franchetto]

Appreciate different people have different communication styles.  Listen and look at how each person expresses themselves . 

Take time to encourage those team members that feel more self-conscious or are less likely to speak up out of fear of others' opinions. 

Listen to others' perspectives before having an opinion.  Differing opinions doesn't mean someone has to be wrong and someone has to be right.  How do you mesh and combine the best elements of both so both party feels they have contributed.

[Chris Boys]

Love this @Sandra Franchetto Suspend judgement, and hold the space for everyone!

[Sandra Franchetto]

Thank you @Chris Boys My whole business is teaching concepts like this. No judgement means consider things from someone else's perspective because the amount of times I have read something and someone tells me 'you've read that wrong' I always say 'no I haven't this is my interpretation of what that reads'. Response is always  'I never thought of it that way'. That's OK, just call me ALF (for anyone around in the 80s) because I never think like others but be careful getting stuck in my big crazy head cause it might 🤯 If I had a dollar for every time someone said 'you're judging me and thinking I can't do my job properly' and I've said 'alas relax you want to know what I'm thinking about? How the Storm played'. 🤣 How boring and uncolourful would life be if we all thought the same. 🙃

[Michael Kerr]

Great information. This emphasizes one of the values of Agile Manifesto: Individuals & Interactions over process and tools.  Building a team is vital to agile. 

[John Funk]

All very good items and advice. Also, as you mention, maybe start with what you are doing pretty well and see if you can soar to new heights with it.

[Sandra Franchetto]

And remember to be gentle with yourself along the journey. If you know you have done your absolute best with something that is all you can really do. 

[Luis Ortiz - Catapult Labs]

Completely agree. Sometimes teams tend to think of Retros as a place to vent. One of the great benefits is to actually identify good practices so you can scale them in your organization. 

One of the learnings we've had over the year from building Agile Retros for Jira

[Sara Beyer]

When you're not sure ask - this is so important! But it also requires us to build an environment where those questions are encouraged and not looked down upon. Encourage your teams to be curious! Test out new ideas, see if it works, learn, and do it again.