A quick tool to kick off your project and get the whole team on the same page

The Team Canvas

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Hey, I’m AlexDesigning innovations @Philips Innovation Lab @IDEO alum, @Hyper Island graduate

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Let’s talk creative teamwork

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Expectations

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👻✨🎉Hi-fives, generating great ideas, quick bonding, doing crazy stuff together, making some magic happen, clients love it, celebrating great results

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Reality

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🙅🎢🔥 No idea about the direction, limited budget for user research, lots of confusion, client doesn’t like our ideas, emotional roller coaster and heavy deadlines

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Only 17% of teams are high performance

The research of 700 groups suggests that on average

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*Susan Wheelan, Creating Effective Teams

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…and it takes from 6 to 8 months for a group to get there

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*Susan Wheelan, Creating Effective Teams

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How do some guys do it so smoothly? Is there something they do, that others don’t?

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IDEO: Embracing ambiguityImage source: IDEO.com

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Hyper Island: Self -leadershipImage source: hyperisland.com

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Valve: Voting with the desksImage source: BBC

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4 states to epiphany

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Forming: everybody is like a child craving for inclusion

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Storming: teenager attitude, conflicts and fights emerge

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Norming: growing up and figuring out how to work together

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👶 → 👦 → 👱 → 👨

Performing: becoming mature and working at high performance

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DEFG

How do we get there as a team?

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To understand it, let’s put it into a bento box

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Great Team: A group of people working towards a common goal, while being open about personal agendas

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with a common Purpose,  sharing similar Values and having appropriate Skills

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understanding Differences and Weaknesses of each other, as well as Needs

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and agreeing on common Rules: the way they Communicate, Make decisions, Execute, etc.

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All this sums up into something that we call The Team Canvas

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Open & distributed under CC 3.0, easy to self-facilitate, boosts productivity & sense of teamness, not a piece of puzzle but a lego block

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Currently testing with selected teams. Sign up for pre-launch: theteamcanvas.com