Succeeding on our own is often child's play compared to succeeding as a team. Once you have a team – whether a marriage, sport, or professional setting – you have to resolve competing agendas, balance disparate personalities, and resolve conflict.
If you have five minutes, take a look at this school team. The 24-page diagnostic team report analyzes the school's faculty on four bedrock teaming dimensions:
Investment: What are team members investing and not investing?
Trust: What's the level of trust?
Innovation: Can team members leverage differences to create new solutions?
Distancing: How does the team handle change?
If you had to help this team, how would you do it? Where would you start?
Published on January 18, 2012 08:28