Aim
To introduce the concept of teaming, as outlined by Professor Amy Edmondson from Harvard. Participants will learn how to work effectively in today’s fast-moving business environment by building trust quickly, collaborating across boundaries, communicating openly, adapting to change, and creating psychologically safe workplaces where people can learn, innovate, and perform at their best.
Details
Duration: Half day or Full day
Availability: Phuket, Bangkok, Singapore, Malaysia. In fact, anywhere you want.
Participants Will Learn To:
- Explain the difference between teams and teaming
- Build trust quickly with colleagues they have not worked with before
- Communicate openly and effectively in rapidly changing situations
- Create psychologically safe environments
- Collaborate effectively across departments, functions, and cultures
- Respond constructively to uncertainty and change rather than resisting it
- Make faster, better decisions by leveraging diverse perspectives
- Learn from mistakes through reflection instead of assigning blame
- Develop habits that support continuous learning and improvement
Workshop Overview
Modern organisations can’t rely on stable teams anymore. Projects evolve rapidly, people move between departments, remote work has become normal, and priorities change constantly. The Art of Teaming workshop helps participants collaborate effectively in fast-changing environments by developing the behaviours, communication skills, and psychological safety needed for high-performing agile teams.
When discussing work teams, many leaders immediately imagine a static group of individuals that have been together for some time. These teams are usually seen as quite stable, consisting of carefully selected individuals who have been coached over time. Tuckman’s “Stages of Team Development” model in which teams form, storm, norm and perform is the most widely used method of describing traditional teams like this.
However, in today’s highly complex, competitive and fast-moving business environment, teams often don’t have the chance to move through the traditional team development cycle. Gen Z workers have entered the workforce and data suggests they are changing jobs (and therefore teams) 134% more frequently than just 3 years ago!
Combined with the constant need for innovation in our 24/7 global marketplace and the constantly shifting nature of work and customer demands, it’s clear that teams need to be more agile than ever before.
Teaming is a verb and is most simply defined as ‘teamwork on the fly’. It describes the mindset and practices of teamwork rather than the design and structures of teams. It involves collaboration without the benefit of stable team structures. The principles of teaming allow newly-formed and ever-changing teams to come together quickly, generate ideas and solve problems.
This is done through the creation of open and honest work environments that are built upon a foundation of psychological safety. And, as you’ll see in this workshop, the principles of teaming can just as easily be applied to traditional, stable teams as well.
It’s a powerful approach to teamwork that fosters greater collaboration, enhanced innovation and more forward-thinking, responsive teams.
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