Teams Category

Self Designing Teams:  The Self Designing Teams Workshop  presents best practices related to teams in organizations with a focus on teams that both self design and self direct.  Self-directed work teams realize their real potential under conditions of interdependence, autonomy and empowerment. A work group needs a high degree of interdependence to obtain the maximum impact from teamwork. Interdependence is the "glue" needed for teamwork. Under conditions of high interdependence, members are acutely aware of how "tied together" they are and recognize the necessity and self-interest of cooperation and teamwork.  By moving to self-directed work teams, an organization seeks to elicit new behaviors- increased ownership, responsibility, initiative, flexibility and creative problem solving. The real innovation is creating a shift in the depth of ownership and responsibility employees feel for their work. This requires creating conditions where employees become "franchise owners" of a core process.