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Essentials for Effective Teamwork

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Collaboration is the only team sport in the world which is played without agreed-upon rules. My mission is to change this. The Collaboration ABC is both, an evolving set of "rules" and a curated collection of resources for personal study and discovery. It is the distilled wisdom from a large number of research papers, books, TED talks, articles and interviews, as well as my own experience. Start exploring it now, and invite the rest of your team to do the same. Once you agree on this alphabet, collaboration in your team will improve, day by day.Check out our resource section for free downloads, like a cheat sheet that can be attached to your monitor. Planning to share the Collaboration ABC with your team or community, e.g. in your blog or website? Just copy&paste the relevant links from this page to even include the interactive version!Enjoy your journey towards better collaboration!TobiasPS: I'd love to hear from you! Please share your feedback, qestions and ideas to tobias(at)windbrake.com

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The Power Of Effective Questioning (5:35)

  • Article: How might we…?, Kimberly Crawford
  • HBR article: The Surprising Power of Questions, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John
  • Forbes.com article: How And Why Leaders Should Ask Instead Of Tell, Kyle Goguen
  • Inc. article: How Smart People Ask Great Questions, Jeff Haden

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. -- Tony Robbins

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  • TED talk: How to turn a group of strangers into a team, Amy Edmondson
  • Homepage: Group Pattern Language Project
  • Template: Team Canvas

The Power Of Teamwork (5:32)

No one is as smart as all of us.-- Kenneth H. Blanchard

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The 110 techniques of communication and public speaking | David JP Phillips | TEDxZagreb (16:51)

  • TED masterclass: Communication vs pontification: How to tell the difference, Ashley Kolaya
  • TED ideas: Before your next presentation or speech here’s the first thing you must think about, Briar Goldberg
  • TED talk: How to speak so that people want to listen, Julian Treasure

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.-- George Bernard Shaw

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  • Wikipedia: Devil's advocate

Dare to disagree | Margaret Heffernan (7:56)

  • Article: Groupthink, Inc.com encyclopedia
  • HBR: How to debate ideas productively at work, Shane Snow
  • TED: How to disagree productively and find common ground, Julia Dhar

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.-- Mahatma Gandhi

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  • HBR article: To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself, Jennifer Porter
  • HBR article: Boost your emotional intelligence with these 3 questions, Daniel Goleman and Michele Nevarez

Simon Sinek - Understanding Empathy (22:08)

  • HBR article: Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?, Daniel Goleman & Richard E. Boyatzis

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. -- Dale Carnegie

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  • TED talk (16:52): Own your body's data, Talithia Williams
  • TED talk (3:14): Got a meeting? Take a walk!, Nilfer Merchant

Choice 5: Fuel Your Fire (3:29)

  • TED talk playlist: Talks to inspire you to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep

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Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.-- William Shakespeare

  • Article: I Like, I Wish, What If, Kimberly Crawford
  • HBR: The Delicate Art of Giving Feedback, Robert C. Pozen

The secret to giving great feedback | The Way We Work, a TED series (5:01)

  • Inc.com: Why Warren Buffet believes Feedback is a Gift, Jim Schleckser

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Feedback is a gift.-- Warren Buffet

  • TED talk (13:55): The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet, Tanya Menon

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | Animated Book Review (9:00)

  • Video: The Strength of Weak Ties, Arun Sundararajan

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The good life is built with good relationships.-- Robert J. Waldinger

Teamwork Reimagined | Kevin Cahill | TEDxSunValley (13:53)

  • Article: How stack ranking corrupts culture, at Uber and Beyond, Rob Davies

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You get what you measure. Measure the wrong thing and you get the wrong behaviors. -- John H. Lingle

  • TED ideas: How thinking like a magician can help you get ahead at work, David Kwong
  • How to Rehearse for an Important Presentation, Carmine Gallo

8 Tips for Running More Effective Meetings | The Distilled Man (8:51)

  • Inc. article: Jeff Bezos Knows How to Run a Meeting. Here’s How He Does It, Justin Bariso

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.-- Benjamin Franklin

Building integrity -- keeping promises: Erick Rainey at TEDxUnionTerrace 2014 (10:21)

  • TEDx talk: The Power of Commitment | Jonathan Jones | TEDxKids@SMU

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Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.-- Bob Proctor

  • TED: Why good leaders make you feel save; Simon Sinek
  • Video: How to Delegate Better with the 7 Delegation Levels

Leadership is About Humility and Empowering Others (3:45)

  • Google: Guide – Understanding Team Effectiveness

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.-- Harvey S. Firestone

  • Collection: Tools for remote teams, Lisette Sutherland

Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague | Nadjia Yousif (11:36)

  • HBR: How to collaborate effectively if your team is remote, Erica Dhawan and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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Technology is the great growling engine of change.-- Alvin Toffler

  • TED series "The way we work": That is what makes employees happy at work

Simon Sinek: How to Build a Company That People Want to Work For | Inc. Magazine (8:55)

  • HBR article: Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate, Bryan Walker and Sarah A. Soule

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast.-- Peter Drucker

  • Ideas.ted.com: The #1 blocker in teamwork is defensiveness. Here‘s how to diffuse it, Kara Cutruzzala
  • TEDx talk (17:36): How to not take things personally, Frederik Imbo

Cultivating Collaboration: Don't Be So Defensive! | Jim Tamm | TEDxSantaCruz (15:17)

  • Video (2:12m): The Four Horsemen of the Apokalypse, The Gottman Institute

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Defensiveness often reveals an area in our lives where we are in denial.-- Kyle Idleman

  • HBR article: High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It, Laura Delizonna

Creating Psychological Safety at Work in a Knowledge Economy | Amy Edmondson, Harvard (3:13)

  • TED talk (12:56m): How to turn a group of strangers into a team, Amy Edmondson

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Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concers of mistakes.-- Amy Edmondson

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen at TEDxClaremontColleges (22:15)

  • HBR article: How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent, Alice Boyes

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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.-- Paul J. Meyer

Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business | Christine Porath (15:24)

  • Personality test: 16Personalities

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I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO.-- Tom Hardy

Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound (18:01)

  • Article: A 12-Minute Summary of "Start With Why", Tejas Kinger
  • Article (9m read): The power of starting with why, Ameet Ranadive

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. -- Simon Sinek

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  • TED talk (12:00): To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others, Dean Furness
  • TED talk (14:17): Want to be happy? Be grateful, David Steindl-Rast

Be A Player, Not A Victim, Fred Kofman (12:56)

  • TED talk (10:00min): A simple trick to develop positive thinking, Alison Ledgerwood

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Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.-- Roy T. Bennett

  • Book: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni

Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (2:10)

  • Video (6:46m): The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni

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Nothing will kill a great employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one.-- Perry Belcher

  • TED talk (17:59): The beauty of data classification, David McCandless
  • Homepage -- Obeya Association

Got a wicked problem? First, show me how you make toast. Tom Wujec (9:05)

  • David Sibbet on The 7 Basic Figures of Visual Facilitation

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A picture is worth a thousand words.-- Proverb

  • TED talk (14:12): How language shapes the way we think, Lera Boroditsky
  • PDF: 25 Idea Killer Phrases, Randy Pennington

Top 10 Killer Phrases (1:07)

  • Article: Killer phrases: The top 40, Joyce Weiss

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Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten. -- Unknown

  • Homepage: Liberating Structures
  • Homepage: Working Out Loud (WOL)

Working Out Loud: The making of a movement | John Stepper | TEDxNavesink (9:49)

  • Article: Introduction to communities of practice

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Sharing is caring.-- Proverb

Bob Kulhan: Improv 101 (The "Yes, and..." Principle) (2:49)

  • Video: Improvisational Warm Ups : Playing the „Yes, And?“ Improv Game by expertvillage

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Even a bad idea is just a bridge to a better idea.-- Kelly Leonhard

  • Video: How Presentation Zen Fixed My Bad PowerPoints, Cult of Pedagogy

Presentation Zen | Garr Reynolds | Talks at Google (1:11:47)

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci