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Exercises

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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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Kata Nylén

The best decision

Identify a time when you made a decision together that turned out well. Discuss what made it successful. Go around the room and have each person highlight the decision from their perspective.

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Katrin Kyrk

Balance belonging to boost creativity

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Psykologifabriken Team

Well-informed

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Principle 3

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What should we prioritize?

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Principle 2

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Air the information

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Principle 3

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Kristin Öster

What we know about what we don’t know

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The team's most important goal

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Principle 1

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How are your decisions made?

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Better for you when beating your own best

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Gustav Nilsson

Identify problems to solve them better

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Kristin Öster

When is the task finished?

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Principle 2

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Therese Fröman

Sprinkle your emails with positivity

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Principle 4

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Is it realistic to fit this in?

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Principle 7

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Gustav Nilsson

Celebrate every step of the way

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Your fun routines

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Principle 2

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Kristin Öster

Burn the anxiety pile

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Principle 2

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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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Kristin Öster

Align expectations on availability

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Better with fair decisions

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Principle 3

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Gustav Nilsson

Emotional connection while working remotely

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Principle 7

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Free birds (and teams) fly further

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Principle 7

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Task autonomy check

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Principle 7

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Psykologifabriken Team

Short break, big results

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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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Principle 7

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Turn complaints into change

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Principle 7

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Does the upper management know what it’s like?

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Principle 7

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Seize control over your micro breaks

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Principle 7

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Will you make it on time?

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Principle 7

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Autonomy without procrastination

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Principle 7

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Your best corrections

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Principle 5

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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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The best things about us

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Principle 4

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Find the wins of the week

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Principle 4

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Be a well-being detective

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Principle 8

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Gustav Nilsson

Solve your task with a goal

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Principle 1

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Gustav Nilsson

Clear expectations drive results

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Principle 2

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Psykologifabriken Team

Do you know where the railing goes?

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Principle 7

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Did you hear about the other team?

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Principle 8

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What the colleague does instead of is

Think of a time when you felt annoyed with someone at work. Instead of thinking about what this person is like, see if you can identify what they are specifically doing that annoys you. Such as "I was annoyed when Lisen rolled her eyes", rather than "Lisen is judgmental".

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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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Principle 3

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Tove Holmberg

The best thing today

Ask a colleague: What was the best thing for you today?

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Sophie Brömster

Three steps towards the purpose

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Gossip about a team

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Principle 8

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Set learning goals when everything is changing

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Jennie Hultgren

What makes us a group?

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Tove Holmberg

Hopeful through visualization

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Gossip about a colleague's behavior

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Kristin Öster

Your goal-directed behaviors of the week

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Something you pulled off

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Inspiration to recover

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Principle 7

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What do we want to learn?

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Principle 1

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Jennie Hultgren

Get closer to your colleagues with your authentic self

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Jennie Hultgren

Identify common ground to deepen your bonds

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Walk in your colleague’s moccasins

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Should you praise someone’s intelligence?

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Psykologifabriken Team

Groups compete more than individuals

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Tone Nordling

Create networks for everyone

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Principle 8

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Tone Nordling

Do preconceived opinions affect some employees?

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Principle 8

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If you lead with others, you trust others

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Principle 7

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Who is the spider in your web?

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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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Increase your performance with more self-governance

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Principle 7

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Does the team have a mandate to change?

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Principle 7

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Do you give everyone the same chance?

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Principle 8

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Three good things today

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Principle 4

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Jennifer Amin

Do not bury your head in the sand during a conflict

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Principle 6

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Jennifer Amin

What is your annoying colleague good at, despite everything?

Write down three concrete behaviors that illustrate how a colleague makes a positive contribution to the work group. Bring up these examples next time you collaborate.

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Principle 6

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Jennifer Amin

Examine how your objectives affect others

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Jennifer Amin

Stand up for your colleague

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Malin Valsö

Counteracting antisocial behaviors

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Malin Valsö

Reduce damage by encouraging the reporting of anomalies

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Jennifer Amin

How do you treat your colleagues?

Consider your reception of your colleagues. Do you act toward others in a way that you would take offense to? Write down three behaviors that you wish to end or change.

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Siri Helle

Notice the person who follows routines

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Siri Helle

Find a helpful role model

Write down at least three actions promoting relationships that you have seen a colleague do and that you appreciated and would like to see more of. This could be, for example, giving a compliment or offering to take on some work for a stressed colleague.

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Malin Valsö

Not reporting errors is only human

What reception is given to colleagues who call attention to their own mistakes or the mistakes of others and report accidents and risks? List three ways of encouraging employees to report problems. This can be, for example, a matter of how you react in the moment or how you report back to the group on what effect the accident report has had.

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Tone Nordling

More than a bad joke

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

Avoid premature decisions

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Frida Metso

“But you have the whole weekend”

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Frida Metso

Always connected – never present

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Frida Metso

Be on call for new parents

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Oskar HenriksonWahlman

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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Gustav Nilsson

Be unavailable on your vacation

Plan now for how you’ll be hard to reach during your break. For example, set a warm, friendly out-of-office reply on your email.

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Sophie Brömster

The manager gives candy that’s both tasty and healthy

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Gustav Nilsson

Consider more than one solution

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Tone Nordling

Help your brain do the most important task

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Gustav Nilsson

Show your appreciation

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The goal’s when, where, and how

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More meaning with autonomy

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Victor Castillo

When does the constructive feedback sink in?

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Your best role

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Your best goal

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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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Tango together

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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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