Bumble Bee Top Collaboration Techniques Mini-Site

Great resource for teaming:

http://kenthompson.typepad.com/thevirtualcoach/

This mini site provides concise and well tried techniques in the areas of Team Mobilisation and Team Operations for a wide-range of collaboration scenarios including:

• virtual teams
• cross-functional teams
• collaborative business networks
• virtual communities
• supply chains and clusters

Each tool in the toolbox includes:

• An Introduction to the topic
• The overall process for introducing and using it
• A Detailed Checklist
• A Worked Example/Supporting Spreadsheet

The current toolbox contains the following items

1. Defining team objectives, success criteria and required outcomes
2. Establishing Team Capabilities for the job and spotting the gaps
3. Defining Team Ground Rules
4. Assessing Team Culture and new required behaviours
5. Agreeing the Team Karma ("what’s in it for me?")
6. Effective Personal Collaboration Strategies
7. Conducting Effective Team Meetings
8. Good Team Decision Making
9. Creating network collaboration opportunities
10. Assessing a teams beliefs versus High Performing Teams
11. Profiling a virtual team
12. Collaborative Document Development
13. Autonomous Behavior Modelling
14. Team Social Network Analysis

15. Team Member Feelings about change: the 10 second test

16. How to detect an “Inverted Team”

17. Organizational Team Turbocharger Tool

18. Virtual team satisfaction assessment

19. Identify team communication problems via “communication distance”

20. An holistic test of collaboration: the 3 greens check

21. Assess Team culture: the 3-colour technique

22. Spot Team member “responsibility” problems

Even though I have described many proven techniques for collaboration there is something you should know… you only need 3 of these techniques to sort out 90% of the problems in the team setup phase ..... and if this phase is not done properly none of the other phases really matter anyway!

So if you need to sort out your team or group in a real hurry - check out The 3 magic techniques for setting up any team