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Developing Teams

The same basic elements that work for individuals - well-designed practice activities, coaching, repetition, feedback, self regulation, building knowledge, and mental models all work for teams as well.  #teamdevelopment

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Ask your teams to identify areas where greater autonomy would help them deliver a better customer experience or improve operations, and then carefully expand their decision-making prerogatives.   #teams   

#Teamwork

Research continually shows that group goals inspire people to work more quickly and for longer periods, pay more attention to the tasks that matter, become less distracted, and increase their overall efforts.

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Teamwork

People need to feel that "We're all in this together."  The risks seem less risky and goals seem more achievable when you are part of a team.  Great leaders make sure that people know that the leader is on the team with them.

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If you give a team the full time that they ask for, or the full budget that they want, or the full number of people that they need, those teams never execute anything of significance.  But if you give them less, make things a little more challenging, they'll push themselves.  When they have some form of constraint, it forces them to have to think a unique way.

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Team Debugging

Engineers love debugging software because they know they can get 10% more efficiency by just making a few tweaks.  But we never focus on debugging human interactions.  We put great people together in teams and hope it will work, and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, and most of the time we don't know.

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Set The Bar To Amazing

How can your team create maximum value?  What would amazing look like?  If you seek to achieve greatness, stretching for amazing is a great place to start.  But by no means is it the place to stop!

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#Teams

The best teams in business have members that have unique and specific strengths or skills that they excel at.  Their approaches and personalities are different and occasionally at odds.  They set their differences aside and team up for the betterment of the organization.

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Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up.  But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.  Talent matters!

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#TeamAlignment

Here are five questions that will help you get your team aligned: 1) What will we accomplish?, 2) Why should we do it?, 3) How will we do it?, 4) Who will do what?, and, 5) How will we measure our progress?

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