TeAming removes barriers

learning the topic

20 minutes

What do animation filmmakers, healthcare workers and smart-city builders have in common? They all come together in flexible teams to accomplish new tasks in a rapidly changing environment, whether it be releasing a cartoon, performing a complex operation, or designing and creating a comfortable space for people to live in. What helps them to achieve such outstanding results?

We need a new mindset to create a collective future

Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor who introduced the concept of teaming, will tell you about productive interaction in flexible teams:

From traditional teams to teaming

It takes time and practice to form a team. But these resources are rare in the 21st century. More and more often, we have to work in temporary, flexible teams. And we need different patterns of thinking and behavior to succeed in them. We need, as Amy Edmondson says, “teamwork on the fly”.

how does TeaMING work?

Amy Edmondson’s idea of spontaneous but effective cooperation without boundaries was structured and supplemented by professors at another of the world’s great business schools, INSEAD. They highlighted the necessary conditions for teaming, as well as the practices that make teaming interactions effective.

This collective knowledge forms the basis of the “teaming model”: a clear and comprehensible system with the main elements defined and their interrelations understood.