How does team trust and unity develop? What tools inspire people to come together to solve their most challenging problems? What's the secret to getting things done across business unit boundaries and silos? How do you avoid disconnects that create bottlenecks, duplication and inefficiency?
To collaborate is to share in a spirit of working as one, because without sharing there is inevitably waste, missed opportunities, disengagement and the risks that come from silos and poorly executed strategies.
Working as one requires connection and synergy. Connection means healthy interpersonal trust among team members and strong partnering relationships, which are important to working in the churn of complexity. Synergy means the team leverages all its resources, collaborates effectively and makes good decisions.
This chapter is structured from those two building blocks, connection and synergy, and again each is divided into A and B elements, as shown in the snapshot of the Team Canvas.
As with the previous chapter, you may choose to work through from the start or go straight to an item you identified from your Team Canvas evaluation.
BUILDING BLOCK3 Connection
Embedded within the essence of human nature, there is an inherent desire for ...