8. Collaboration with other groups
A sustainable and successful team is created with clear goals, clear roles, inclusive decision-making, positive feedback, psychological safety, effective conflict management, and autonomy among team members.Expanding our perspective to encompass collaboration across multiple teams within an organization, these same eight principles hold true. To scale up collaboration and create a sustainable and successful organization, we can extend these principles to guide inter-team relationships. Use the first seven principles for the relationship between teams as well. For example, setting clear goals helps align the efforts of two teams towards a shared objective. Read more…

Exercises

Gossip about a team

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Do preconceived opinions affect some employees?

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Create a forgiving atmosphere between groups

The next time you notice that the team is complaining about another department, a business partner, or a customer, you can draw up a list of the behaviors in your team that are liable to make things difficult for the other group. For example: you respond with counter-arguments instead of asking questions, choose separate tables in the lunch room, only reply to emails after reminders. 
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