Project HEADWAY: What We Still Get Wrong About Team Building

 

The idea of team building has been around for more than 50 years. So has the dominant model of team building. The only problem is that team building in practice doesn’t work in the way that it is theoretically supposed to. And that’s a problem.

More and more of our work is done in teams. Sometimes those teams are virtual. Sometimes they are collocated. Occasionally, they’re agile (or at least borrow techniques from agile, and make everyone stand up in meetings). And sometimes they’re just a large bunch of people gathered together, trying to get something meaningful done.

In all instances, teams come down to people. And people are complicated. Which means that the process of team building is generally complicated, often messy and rarely straightforward. Which isn’t to say that we don’t have information and insights on how teams develop, how they work, when they don’t and how to best organize and build them to sustain reasonable performance.

In this webinar, Mark Mullaly revisits what we know—and what we should know—about team building. He explores why the dominant team building model doesn’t really work in the way it suggests. He introduces new(er) models that provide relevant and important insights about how teams form, how they develop and how they maintain their functioning (good or bad). And in particular, he explores the strategies that really do make a difference in building effective team performance.

Whether you manage teams, or you are a member of teams, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.

In this webinar, Mark Mullaly revisits what we know—and what we should know—about team building. He explores why the dominant team building model doesn’t really work in the way it suggests. He introduces new(er) models that provide relevant and important insights about how teams form, how they develop and how they maintain their functioning (good or bad). And in particular, he explores the strategies that really do make a difference in building effective team performance. Whether you manage teams, or you are a member of teams, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.