90 Days to Level Up Your Teamwork

Introduction

Welcome to 90 Days to Level Up Teamwork, your guide to taking your leadership skills to the next level in only 90 days. In this guide, I challenge you with actionable, practical goals to build your teamwork skills week by week. You don’t have to wait to see results: you’ll be learning and growing every week of this 90-Day Plan.

In this guide, I challenge you to do the following:

• Get ready to learn, innovate, and compete.
• Team fearlessly with psychological safety.
• Innovate with teaming.

These overarching performance goals are broken down into benchmark goals for each week: rigorous but achievable targets to let you see immediate progress on your journey.

Each weekly goal comes with insightful readings, engaging activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.

Part I describes the basic activities and conditions that help organizations succeed through teaming, a dynamic kind of teamwork designed to fit the needs of the fast-paced modern workplace. I cover how work gets done, how leaders help make it happen, and how a safe interpersonal environment frees up people to focus on innovation. The model and guidelines presented throughout this part provide readers with a supportive framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of collective learning. I examine and describe the mindset required to successfully incorporate teaming within an organizational setting and provide a set of leadership practices that can help develop a team-based learning infrastructure. ...