Turning People into Teams, David Sherwin
Turning People into Teams, David Sherwin
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Turning People into Teams
Rituals and Routines That Redesign How We Work

Author: David Sherwin, Mary Sherwin

Narrator: Mary Sherwin

Unabridged: 4 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/09/2018


Synopsis

Collaborative strategies work 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mathilde on January 29, 2023

Plenty of interesting rituals people can try with their team at different stages.......more

Goodreads review by Alexia on November 20, 2019

I would give this book 4 stars out of 5 because it teaches me a lot, and I could see where to apply them in my life. I took my time reading the book and it paid off because I learned different things along the way. The major questions kept me thinking. The most interesting one was about what questio......more

Goodreads review by Eric on January 07, 2025

This book is great if you are interested in exercises to facilitate team alignment. I do not recommend listening to the audiobook though. I think you really need to be able to see what they show you on the page (and describe in the audio version). I also do not believe this is a good book to just re......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 18, 2021

a little high level - lacks certain specifics. good primer for new-ish team leaders......more

Goodreads review by Divyesh on February 07, 2022

This is a no frills book describing practical ways to create cohesive teams. I have used several routines and rituals described here over the years and having a concise guide listing many useful routines in one place is great. Authors do not wiring you down with lot of examples which may or may not......more