Think One Team, 3rd Edition

A blueprint for teamwork  

Do you view your team as one of your greatest assets? Are you keen to unlock the potential of your team as individuals and collectively? Is a high‐performing team essential to your business strategy and personal aspirations?

If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then these chapters are for you! They offer a step‐by‐step guide to transforming team culture and ways of working to suit the challenges of today and tomorrow. You will find chapters chockful of proven tools and techniques to supercharge your team to sustain performance and wellbeing in high‐demand conditions.

A shared framework

The starting point for building a top team is a shared understanding of the essential characteristics or building blocks for a high‐performing team. You need that so everyone is clear and aligned about what a top‐performing team really is. The challenge is to make it compellingly practical, while not oversimplifying the complexities of team direction, dynamics and development.

In this part we offer a framework to describe, create and evaluate the way your team, or any team, is set up and how it operates. That framework is in the form of a learning loop model that has been applied and proven as part of the Think One Team method (www.thinkoneteam.com) in a wide array of enterprises and government settings ranging from start‐ups to the executive teams ...