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Your clearest roles

Pair up and share the clearest role you’ve ever had. Discuss what made it clear—e.g., a concrete role description, well-defined tasks, or clear goals.

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Balance belonging to boost creativity

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Well-informed

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What should we prioritize?

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Air the information

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Principle 3

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Celebrate every step of the way

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Your fun routines

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When is it ok to be overruled?

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Principle 3

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Gustav Nilsson

What do we want to train?

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Principle 6

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The team’s sustainable list

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Principle 1

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Kristin Öster

Align expectations on availability

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Free birds (and teams) fly further

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Principle 7

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Alexander Fredriksson

Help the team leader by sharing the leadership responsibilities

Help the team leader by sharing the leadership responsibilities. Create a list of the team leader's tasks. Is there an assignment that someone else on the team could handle? Alternatively, could you rotate some of the assignments among yourselves?

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Your best corrections

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Gustav Nilsson

What’s our glue?

Reflect individually on the question: At which moments or during which tasks do you feel a strong sense of cohesion with the team? Then review your answers together. A next step could be to schedule more of those activities.

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Gustav Nilsson

Clear expectations drive results

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Principle 2

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Alexander Fredriksson

Meeting goals create focus

Create focus by starting the meeting with jointly formulating a clear goal for the meeting. It is good to write the goal on a board or something similar where everyone can see it during the meeting. Encourage the participants to speak up if they feel that the goal is unclear.

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Gossip about a team

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Principle 8

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Set learning goals when everything is changing

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What do we want to learn?

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Principle 1

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Do preconceived opinions affect some employees?

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How is information shared in the team?

Make a list of what channels team members use to spread information. This might take place through meeting notes, an intranet, or perhaps a newsletter, for example. How does the team ensure that the information reaches the individual members via the different channels? Write down your response.

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Children and teams can do it on their own

Make a list of what your team members are permitted to decide on their own. Make another list of what they need to run by their manager. Think it over! Is this a good level of self-determination?

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Does the team have a mandate to change?

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Be on call for new parents

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“But you have the whole weekend”

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Avoid premature decisions

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Smarter teams when everyone has their say

Ask for everyone’s opinions during the next team meeting. You can, for example, suggest a round where you ask each team member to share their views on a proposal.

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Gustav Nilsson

Purpose is the foundation for group motivation

Within the team, discuss what makes your work important in a greater perspective. For example: who is affected by your work? In what way is your work important?

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The best collaboration with another team

Think of a time when you worked together with another group or team in your organization — a collaboration that went really well. What made it successful? Share your examples in small groups.

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The best goal

Have you ever set a high and specific goal within the team and achieved it? Take a minute to reflect individually. Then, go around the group and share your examples.

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The best feedback

Identify a time when you received really good feedback. Preferably, focus on feedback that was positive and immediate, such as: "Thank you for summarizing what was said in the meeting; it makes it clear that we’re on the same page." Then, go around the team and share your examples.

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The best conflict never happens

Everyone in the group reflects individually on a time when they successfully avoided or prevented a conflict with someone else. Afterward, pair up to share your examples and identify what in the situation—or in your own and the other person’s actions—helped defuse the tension.

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Train for autonomy with your team

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To the collection

To feel free, we need to know where our mandate begins and ends.This collection focuses on autonomy.It includes seven exercises that help you clarify boundaries and guardrails so you can feel freer to take initiative. You’ll also practice spotting what already works and how to take your autonomy and self-determination to the next level—by reviewing how information is shared in the team, how decisions are made, and by identifying moments when you feel especially free.

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