Leaders as Team Members

Leaders as Team Members

Opener

Welcome to our Teams Module. Here, we take a deeper dive into teamwork, leadership, and motivation.

I love the video below because it shows how remote team members can be (very remote) and still be effective. Watch as much as you'd like and take away that I'm a huge Chris Hadfield fan across many topics. 

 

Introduction

In this module, you will:

• Grapple with the creative tension between Team One and functionally structured teams
• Evolve your goals for your organization and your team
• Consider both the task and the social dynamics that support your team's success

To-Dos

• First: Team Assessment. Please complete this team assessment before you go further and certainly by Sunday night (11:59 PM pacific), so I have time to look at the results. If your innovation setting doesn't yet have a team, answer for another team critical to your work.

  https://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/pdf/9780787986186.excerpt.pdf (Links to an external site.)

  Enter your results (anonymously) into this Google form: https://forms.gle/Bt5xU4rGrJQYiDgu6

  Respond to this True/False item.

• Read/Watch/Reflect: Take a first pass through the materials above and below. Leverage the additional resources as you have time and need. 
  • Read The Case for Organizational Health & The Four Disciplines Model (pp. 1-16 in my hardcopy) to Patrick Lencioni's book, The Advantage. (You will need to sign in to the library if you want to use this free version -- that said, consider buying your own copy so you can return to it throughout your career.) To access via SFU, click the link, then click, "online access," then "Ebook Central" or "O'Reilly Online Learning." It's an odd-looking website, but it gets you free access.
  • Use this guide to help you decide which additional section of The Advantage to read for this module. 
  • Respond to this short-text entry.
• Add your resource contribution and any questions as they arise in the Leaders as Team Members Discussion
• Leverage your favorite genAI to increase your team's psychological safety and submit the related module activity.
• Come to our synchronous time with additional ideas about leveraging The Advantage and perhaps a draft team trajectory playbook or journal entry that will help you move your invention to innovation. To get started, take a look at the Course Journal/Playbook assignment. Add questions and comments to the Journal/Playbooks Discussion.
• See how your favorite AI tool can help you facilitate your team's development. Expect about 15 minutes for this assignment. 

Let's Get Started (2m44s)

We'll start with this short video of Patrick Lencioni, author of The Advantage, discussing Team #1.

 

Review of Organizational Health

Team Task AND Socio-Emotional Capabilities

Team effectiveness is built on two main dimensions: Task capabilities and Socio-emotional capabilities. Makes sense. The team must include the right task skills and the ability to leverage those skills. It's possible that one person might both have the task expertise and the facilitation skills to support the team's work. However, remember this is a team — it's okay and possibly better if different people handle the task and facilitation. So, be sure you have the expertise you need to support your innovation, and be sure your team works on its process. 

Two socio-emotional capabilities to work on:

1. Psychological Safety

2. Transactive Memory

This module has a lot to cover, so I'll give you the summary version of transaction memory. Your team needs to know who knows what, who needs what information, and how to coordinate, given the spread of knowledge and information. The more psychological safety you have, the easier it is to build this transactive memory in your team. Check out the additional resources link below to see how this can play out in a hackathon.

Reflect:

Additional Resources