Sample Slide
with Executive Summary
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List of Smart & Fast Lessons
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Team vs. Group
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Building a
Team Culture
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Make
Everybody a Team Player
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Winning
Team: 1 + 6 Intertwined Pillars
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Characteristics of a Winning Team
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5 Keys To
Team Success
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Indisputable
Laws of Teamwork
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Nine Roles
of a Team Leader
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Virtual
Teams: Benefits and Challenges
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Leading
Innovation: Inspire Your Team
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Nourish the
Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Create Hot
Teams, Not Dull Teams
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Best
Practices: IDEO's Hot Studio System
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Harness the
Power of Diversity
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Cross-functional Teams: Key Tasks
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Engaging
Cross-functional Teams
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Empowering
Cross-functional Teams
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Best
Practices: Innovation Teams at Quantum
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Cross-functional Teams: Recommendations
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Team
Assessment
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How Good is Your Team?
Effective statements for
team assessment help you
evaluate strengths and weaknesses of your team and uncover teamworking
problems that you might be experiencing. Give each statement one of the
marks that best describes your situation: Strongly agree, Somewhat agree,
Partly agree/partly disagree, Somewhat disagree, Strongly disagree. For best
results, ask all team members to complete the assessment form and compare
the views of team leaders and other team members.
Sample statements for team
effectiveness assessment would be:
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All members share a vision to
be an
innovative
team.
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The team understands what it
needs to accomplish.
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The project contains
stretch goals
and intermediate milestones for progress.
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The team has the resources
needed to be successful.
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Team members feel free to
challenge each other and ask questions.
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New ideas are encouraged,
decision regarding their implementation are made without any
delay.
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The team has a specific process
to overcome roadblocks to implementing new ideas.
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Team leaders
support innovation through specific events.
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The team consistently creates
an atmosphere of mutual trust.
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The team cultivates and
harvests a "what we can learn" attitude when things go
wrong.
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Team members balance their
individual needs for autonomy with the benefits of mutual
interdependence.
How Can You Improve?
Having assessed your team, move further to
improve it. Ask these questions:
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How could our team
create higher value for customers
and all stakeholders?
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What mindsets and/or
limitations hamper innovation?
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What should be changed and how
to make our team more effective and innovative?
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