How to develop teamwork

There are several key steps that can help to develop teamwork in an organization

Set clear goals and expectations

It is important for teams to have a
clear understanding of what they are working towards, as well as the
roles and responsibilities of each team member. This can help to ensure
that everyone is on the same page and working towards the same goal.

Encourage open communication

Effective communication is essential
for successful teamwork. Encourage team members to share their thoughts
and ideas openly, and create an environment where everyone feels
comfortable speaking up and providing feedback.

Foster collaboration

Encourage team members to work together and
support each other in achieving their goals. This can include things
like sharing knowledge and resources, providing assistance to team
members who are struggling, and working together to solve problems.

Provide support and resources

Make sure that team members have the
tools and resources they need to succeed. This can include things like
training, access to technology, and support from managers and other team
members.

Celebrate success

It is important to recognize and celebrate the
accomplishments of teams and individual team members. This can help to
motivate and inspire team members, and foster a positive and
collaborative team culture.

Performance by collaboration - in teams and larger communities

Why teamwork?

Every, every group tries to collaborate. Depending on the skills and context, the result will be excellent, bland, or dysfunctional.

Learning teamwork, great collaboration, results in:

Getting the work done
Knowledge creation and innovation
Sharing workload, competence, and leadership
Trust, care, and love for the shared space
Courage and motivation to face challenges as one team
Broad individual learning

Leading large organizations

Teamwork wisdom is immensely useful for leading large and complex organizations.

Create great collaboration and performance in projects, communities, organizational change, and line management.

Even remote work improves when you serve the human needs related to collaboration.

The only antidote for bureaucracy

A teamwork-based organization is adaptive and manageable. Own teamwork of the top management is critical for big strategic bets.

Teamwork is the antidote to bureaucracy. Only teamwork can solve the wicked problems of improving the system, overcoming the silos and narrow roles of the middle management.

Unlike bureaucratic silos, teamwork at the front line is able to solve new ambiguous interdependent tasks, in service, product development, and organizational improvement.

See slides from a thorough webinar

Hidden potential

According to Susan Wheelan's research, 50% of people have never experienced real teamwork. Uninformed people like to think "we are already there." Stretch the status quo.

Five essentials

Organizational enablers

Teamwork emerges only with the right conditions: Real team, Compelling purpose, Right people, Clear norms of conduct, Supportive organizational context, and Team‐focused coaching.

Learn to influence the surrounding organization and create the preconditions.

Individual motivation and responsibility

Individuals have their fair and reasonable concerns before they join the team and take responsibility.

Recognize the questions of trust, motivation, and power. Learn the practice of overcoming individual and collective resistance,

Interaction

Interaction between team members gradually creates norms, the local culture.

Create trust in safety and fairness through wise feedback for improvement, Nonviolent Communication for processing emotions, and peer coaching for solutions.

Group Dynamics

Practicing teamwork gradually creates a shared productive whole. Group cohesion is the magic behind the passion, resilience, and courage.

Studying group dynamics makes sense of this invisible whole and its strong influence on the members.

Learn to understand the patterns, heal dysfunctions, and lead team development.

Example article about Tuckman's *orming

Work and improve

Learn to share workload, competence, and leadership from day one. Try out and learn different tools, processes, frameworks, and facilitation techniques.

Care, trust, and love for the shared mental and physical space grow, and gradually the fruits of teamwork materialize.

Teamwork Wisdom in Practice

Teamwork training for leaders. Team launch workshops for entire teams.

We want great performance through collaboration - also in larger units like communities, projects, and even in remote teams.

Individuals and interaction - Shaping the culture

Motivation, truest, and responsibility
Feedback process, Skilful Dialogue, Nonviolent communication
Organizational culture and norms
Conflict resolution exercise

Organizational enablers

Enabling organizational conditions: Real team, Compelling purpose, Right people, Clear norms of conduct, Supportive organizational context, and Team‐focused coaching
Analyze the organizational culture exercise
Enabling teamwork by teamwork-based change
Teamwork as the antidote for bureaucratic control

Group dynamics - Learning to work as one team

Group dynamics demystified
Leadership and group dynamics in team development: Forming, Storming, Dreaming, Performing, Ending (Tuckman's *orming corrected)
Essential psychological concepts: power, projection, defenses, ...
Dysfunctional teams: Dependency, Happy family, depressed team, narcissistic disturbances, Groupthink, difficult individuals

Caring for the shared mental and physical space

Learning to share workload, competence, and leadership
Team launch exercise
Teamwork in communities and remote teams
Cases and questions. How to apply as a leader, team member, or coach

Free Meetup

Teamwork Meetup →

Venue	Time
Brainlab headquarters	19.7.2023 – 19.7.2023	→ Register

Interactive talk and exercises. Please look at the registration link for the exact agenda.

Public training

Teamwork Wisdom →

Venue	Time
München, Germany	11.1.2024 – 12.1.2024	→ Register
Helsinki, Finland	16.1.2024 – 17.1.2024	→ Register

Release the hidden potential of your organization. Invite everyone to contribute to great collaboration and performance.

Private training

Please enquire for private training and coaching.