Debriefing Your Team

            When a team has been established for a while it can be useful to step back and reflect on how the team is progressing. We meet for an hour or so and work through some questions. Below is a list of questions that can help your team to reflect…

Three Types of Team

When teams and groups work together for the first time on a project, three types of group can emerge. I call them the Polite Team, the Broken Team and the Real Team.   The Real Team is the ideal team type where everyone becomes involved and committed to the project. They “dive in”, occasionally stepping…

Compellaboration

Compellaboration is a form of often collusive collaboration that hides competition as a motive for action at its core. Compellaboration can be overt where the motive is not hidden, is clear to all parties involved – we compete using collaboration as a method. In popular culture, some aspects of reality TV shows such as The…