How do you team? Are you intentional by design? Or have you stumbled into it and allowing status quo and circumstance to define your success? What’s your team’s shadow side🌗?
‘How Teaming Supercharges Collaboration’ from Insead offers a pithy nudge.
☠️ In short, blockers to success include prioritising self over peers, withholding information, shifting accountability, resisting responsibility, avoidance. Does your team have a shadow side? Have you had the courage to name it, together?
🤠 What good looks like: trust, unemotional problem solving, active learning and aligned action i.e. flow.
Enablers - won’t be a surprise:
🏆 Focus: A shared goal, purpose to contribute to
👭 People: Mindset and actions proactive, tolerant, open to ‘new’, sharing, expertise
⛰️ Platforms: shared values, defined ways of working & guardrails, tools and technologies that enable collaboration, success metrics to track progress and outcomes
🏃🏻♀️ Where is your team at on their teaming journey? Which enabler needs most focus to unblock and uncage your team’s flow?
