X-Teams, Revised and Updated

6 X-ifying the Team Six Steps to Make It Happen

Suppose that you are a manager charged with creating an x-team. It might be a product development team, a research team, a sales team, a manufacturing team, a task force, or even a top management team. What would you need to do to jump-start the team’s work and enable it to follow an out-before-in, externally focused approach? How can you facilitate a team’s ability to engage in distributed leadership to bring the organization’s core mission and strategy to life?

Using data from groups we have worked with, research studies, and existing theory on team performance, this chapter provides a guide with concrete steps that can lead your team to great results. It covers both what happens inside your ...