Teaming to Innovate

Who would find this book useful?

Team members seeking to improve collaboration and learn from their mistakes. Leaders and managers looking to foster innovation and teamwork on their teams. Anyone interested in building a more dynamic and learning-oriented culture

What's the main theme of the book?

This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. Amy articulates a roadmap for teaming to innovate through the 5 Steps. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

Key Concepts in the book!

A follow through to the main book "Teaming", Teaming to Innovate, covers the 5 Steps elaborately:

1. Aim High: Identify ambitious goals that require collaboration and diverse perspectives. Stretch your team's thinking and embrace uncertainty.

2. Team Up: Build diverse teams with complementary skills and backgrounds. Encourage open communication and trust among team members.

3. Fail Well: Normalize and learn from mistakes as opportunities for growth. Create a blame-free environment where sharing failures leads to improvement.

4. Learn Fast: Continuously reflect on experiences and iterate based on new information. Create structures for rapid experimentation and feedback loops.

5. Repeat: Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Celebrate successes and encourage ongoing teaming for future innovation.

Actionable tools & techniques

• Team discussion prompts: Edmondson suggests questions to prompt open and honest discussions around goals, challenges, and learning from mistakes. These prompts can act as conversation starters and help build psychological safety.
• Feedback loops: Regular feedback through surveys, one-on-ones, or retrospectives allows teams to learn and adapt quickly. Feedback should be specific, actionable, and delivered in a constructive manner.

Rohan Nabar, is a Bangalore based Executive Coach & Learning Leader. He specializes in Self Awareness through assessments and reflection, Leadership Development & Coaching, Human Centered Design, and Subjective Well-being (Happiness). He could be reached at [email protected] or his website www.rohannabar.com or his LinkedIn Profile www.dhirubhai.net/in/rohannabar

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