• The three components of the teaming skillset are cyclical. The cycle continues in a self-perpetuating way, with both team growth and individual growth feeding each other.
  
  
• These skills will be particularly useful for three types of teams: new or changing teams, hybrid teams and cross-team collaboration.

Which of the three subsets of teaming could you develop further?

Teaming cycle

Questions to ask:

• Which of the four pillars is your team’s greatest strength?
  
  
• Which of the four pillars is least strong for your team?
  
  
• Which of the eight elements around the outside is the one most important to your team’s success over the next 3 months?
  
  
• What is your unique contribution to this?

• The last essential element of the teaming skillset that we include is the skill of being a team diagnostician.
  
  
• Using a simple model can help all team members to become effective team diagnosticians.
  
  
• Insights has a basic team effectiveness model that is used for teams to identify strengths and gaps as a team. They can then leverage their other teaming skills to increase their team’s performance.

Team diagnostics

Along with awareness, an effective individual team member will demonstrate effective personal leadership. We are defining this as inclusive of three elements: Emotional competence, Living above the line, and Time management.

Emotional competence – The ability to remain grounded in the face of conflict, not taking things personally, and moving forward to resolution

Living above the line – Making the choice to take responsibility for attitudes and progress towards outcomes.

Time management – Each person’s time management challenges may be different; assess yourself and activate your awareness to develop the skills that will most help you

Personal Leadership

The skill of awareness

• The skill of teaming is the ability to be an effectively contributing member of a team AND to receive personal benefits in return
  
  
• What can I do for this team? What can this team do for me?

“Fast moving work environments need people who know how to team, people who have the skills and flexibility to act in moments of potential collaboration when and where they appear.”
- Amy Edmondson

Teaming

As an individual:

• What is the constant across all of the teams each person is a part of? YOU. You are a part of all of them and YOU make an impact
  
  
• With awareness, you can choose your impact, and positively affect team effectiveness

• Ecosystem is a community of living organisms working in conjunction with the non-living components to produce an environment beneficial to all.
  
  
• Effective teams harness the power of the individual for the team’s benefit, and likewise demonstrate the power of the team for the individual’s benefit
  
  
• Investing in individual teaming skills and building an environment and culture that is supportive of teaming will result in ALL teams in an organisation becoming more effective.

Teams as ecosystems

- Consultancy.uk, 16th November 2017

• For teams this means we should no longer expect a team to deliver solutions in isolation, but instead we should assume that the most effective team outputs will result from collaborations with other, sometimes unexpected, partners.
  
  
• It is the diversity and variety of complementary capabilities coming together to solve a problem that creates the success, not stability and longevity

Hypercollaboration

Organisational Ecosystems from the Individual up.