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How High-Performing Teams Build Trust

Harvard Business Review

To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S.-based As important — if not more so — is establishing trust between teammates.

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Team Building in the Corporate Venture Studio Context

Innov8rs

Entrepreneur-in-Residence) and Hillary Balma (Director at G-Works Venture Studio at General Mills), shared guiding principles and lessons learned in building strong teams of corporate entrepreneurs. As such, the necessary skills for a high-performing team are varied. Here are the key takeaways from their talk.

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. As a COO, you can apply this approach to increase collaboration within your company by following these steps: Encourage cross-functional teams: Design Thinking requires collaboration between different teams and departments.

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To Put Your Company Values into Action, Create Working Agreements

Harvard Business Review

They help teams build three key components that drive effective collaboration: shared language, understanding, and accountability. The authors explore that disconnect and present a more effective, alternative way for leaders to foster shared understanding, language, and accountability in their organizations: working agreements.

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How can we Combat the Peter Principle?

Destination Innovation

’ Furthermore they found that ‘workers who never collaborate with others—the so-called lone wolves—fare particularly poorly when they are promoted into managerial roles. We then show that firms can improve managerial quality by promoting fewer top sales performers on the margin.’ We need to be on our guard against it.

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Fantastic Away Days And Team Building Activities For Small Businesses

The Human Factor

Even though your team will no doubt be very busy in the office, it’s still a really good idea to try to organize a day for team building every few months. Team building and away days give your team the chance to work together on slightly different tasks and activities that they would usually collaborate on.

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3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact

BrainZooming

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career.