 In this final episode, I summarize all of what I covered in the preceding 26 episodes and discuss the resources available to listeners.

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027 Summary and Final Reflections

 All teams attempting to enhance their performance must deal with trust. There are lots of theories about what trust is, why it matters and how to develop it. There are also countless exercises and activities designed to build trust. Most of these theories and approaches assume that trust is the key to effective teamwork, a necessary precursor. Our research led me to believe is that trust is an outcome, not a prerequisite. This difference it crucial for understanding how to approach trust in teams.

026 Tackling Trust

 The key to this framework are the insights and theories that lie behind it. The name of the Imperatives and Practices are just labels; we encourage you to adapt this Framework to your organization and culture.

025 Adapting the Framework to YOUR organization

Great teams don't just conduct their business. willy-nilly. They align their collaborative processes, like meetings and decision making, to support the value they've agreed to deliver. For instance, they figure out what meetings are essential to getting their work done and then schedule only those meetings. Any team can hit its stride one or twice. Superior teams have a discipline of reflection, inquiry and learning that sustain their success over time.

024 Practices 5 and 6 - Activate ways of Working and Sustain & Renew

 Once a team knows why its collaboration matters and what work will deliver on their purpose they can begin to cultivate the relationships and commitments needed to deliver.

023 Practice 4 - Cultivate Collaboration

Once a team understands the context it's operating in, it needs to figure out how its collaboration can create the greatest value for the organization. A team's purpose captures that value proposition and provides a "why" for their collaboration. Understanding "why" a team's collaboration matters is a good start but it isn't enough. The next practice helps teams to figure out exactly what work requires collaboration, and which doesn't, and how their work will deliver on their purpose statement.

022 Practices 2 and 3 - Inspire Purpose and Crystallize Intent

Strong teams begin with a clear sense of how they fit into the larger organization, they know what's expected of them to deliver value to external stakeholders.

021 Practice 1 - Clarify Context

The Imperatives describe 3 areas that teams must attend to. It's the six Practices associated with each of the Imperatives that deliver stronger collaboration.

020 The Practices of High Performance Collaboration

 Even with all the Clarity and Intentionality in the world, collaboration will sputter without sufficient and appropriate discipline.

019 Discipline - The Third Imperative

Intentionality is the critical element in effective teamwork. It begins with Clarity and relies on specific efforts and practices to deepen and extend it.

018 Intentionality - The Second and Central Imperative

 To create intentional collaboration you begin with creating crystal clarity about why collaboration matters.

017 Clarity - the first Imperative

 Getting teamwork right means paying attention to three key areas, what we call The Three Imperatives of High Performance Collaboration.

016 The Three Imperatives of effective collaboration

 Consultants will tell you that there are teams, and there are groups and that the two are different. Don't worry about whether your group is a "real team" or not. Instead, focus on what requires collaboration and what doesn't.

015 There is no such thing as a real team

 Collaboration can be though of as having several levels or degrees. There are five in particular that are worth understanding to help your team understand how it wants to spend its time.

014 What are the "Levels of Collaboration?"

 People who work with teams will often talk about dysfunction and how to help groups with it. The trust is that more team dysfucntion is actually based on individual behavior.

013 The truth about team dysfunction

I am on a mission to humanize the workplace. Improving collaboration, helping people connect with people in productive and meaningful ways is the point, it's why I do what I do. What I hope you'll take away from these podcasts is a series of ideas and tools that you can apply in your work with leaders and groups to make the changes that you want to see in the world.

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