Category: Collaboration

The Roles Every Team Needs to Be Effective

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date February 1, 2021

If your goal is to level up the performance of a senior leadership team. There are many models and frameworks available to assess team behavior and performance. Each of them has pros and cons in different situations.

One of my favorites comes from the psychologist David Kantor and is called the Four-Player Communication Model. It applies to any team solving problems and collaborating to reach common goals. Each role is fairly simple to understand, yet getting them working together on a team can be a balancing act.

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Agile Transformation Collaboration

How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date November 2, 2020

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all.

Collaboration Innovation Personal Improvement

Virtual Meetings Are Here to Stay. Here’s How to Make Yours Better

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date October 26, 2020

Virtual meetings can be challenging to run. Try these seven techniques to make them worth every minute.

Collaboration Personal Improvement

5 Ways to Work Effectively from Home

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date July 27, 2020

As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to grow, the number of people working remotely will rise exponentially. But working outside an office can be a challenge. What are the best ways to set yourself up for success? How do you stay focused and productive? And how do you keep your work life separate from your home life?

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The 4 Things Resilient Teams Do

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date July 13, 2020

Resilient teams are just as important to businesses as resilient individuals, but while individual resilience is built independently, team resiliency must be carefully cultivated by leadership. We surveyed almost 2,000 NCAA coaches to get their perspective on how they build resilient teams and worked with hundreds of team leaders and members in a wide variety of industries to find out if the same strategies from sports applied to the business world. We discovered that resilient teams — different from resilient people — have four things in common: They believe they can effectively complete tasks together, they share a common mental model of teamwork, they are able to improvise, and they trust one another and feel safe.