Turning People Into Teams: Rituals and Routines That Redesign How We Work - Softcover

David Sherwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523095741 ISBN 13: 9781523095742

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Collaborative strategies work for teams when they're designed by teams where each person is heard, valued, and held accountable. This book is a practical guide for project team leaders and individual contributors who want their teams to play by a better set of rules.

Where do teams go wrong? Having the right people with the right skills doesn't mean they'll know how to work together as a team. David and Mary Sherwin maintain it's all in the design. Through a blend of straightforward activities, conversational stories, and dialogues that help model different forms of team interaction, this book will help teams:
* Create workday rituals that aid them in making better decisions and following through on their work responsibilities
* Identify patterns of behavior that are getting in the way of team performance, and design and test potential ways to them
* Reinforce habits that help team members bring the human element into their interactions and foster open communication
Readers of this book will be more prepared to set up and survive challenging projects alongside their coworkers with a shared sense of ownership, and an eye towards retaining the integrity of their teams in the long term. Using a process that has worked at some of the world's cutting edge companies, the authors detail the steps to take control of team design and plan for success. The key is to give every team member a voice in designing the team's rules, and in keeping it aligned with the design over the life of the team.

About this title

About the Author

David Sherwin is cofounder of Ask the Sherwins, LLC, helping organizations better integrate design into how they make products, and develop custom training programs and tools for cross-disciplinary teams. A Fellow at Frog Design, a global product strategy and design firm, he was previously an Interaction Design Director and co-authored frog's Collective Action Toolkit. In past roles, he has led product and service design teams, including those focused on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning. He is currently an adjunct faculty member of two graduate-level interaction design programs: California College of the Arts and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
Mary Sherwin is cofounder of Ask the Sherwins LLC and a seasoned writer, educator, and public speaking coach with expertise in helping individuals and schools develop rigorous curricula and activities for their learning needs. She has worked on multiple successful training programs and product innovation toolkits, such as Kaiser Permanente's i60 Innovation Toolkit with Propelland and frog's Collective Action Toolkit. With David, she is on the visiting faculty of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and California College of the Arts, and was formerly an adjunct professor at St. Mary's College of California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1523095741
• ISBN 13: 9781523095742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192