Successfully Creating

Cross Divisional Teams

You Can Create a Successful Team

Every team that fails, fails uniquely Every team that succeeds, succeeds

in similar ways

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

PHS Move Project Opened, April 2004 The 372,000 square-

feet >900 faculty and staff

The facility unites [faculty and staff] in shared spaces to create the opportunity for increased collaboration

Cross Divisional Teams Different worlds

• Culture• Reward systems• Reporting systems• Control systems

Tip # 1: Create a Culture What is culture Examples

• Disney• Starbucks• REI• Microsoft

TIP # 2: Create A Common Goal Common vision Common success Individuals vs. Teams

Tip # 3: Keep Teams small Team size is important

• Ideal size 7-9 (cell units) Relationships Culture Stories/ stop rumors

Large projects• Web of relationships

Tip # 4: A culture of fun Knock knock…

Tip # 5: A culture of Respect

Starts with you

Meetings

Speaking

Aligning Desperate Opinions

Create Safety Understand the assumptions Find the points of agreement Build on those points of agreement Tips and tricks

• Ignorance is bliss• Their ideas• Complement sandwich (you won’t need this

much)

Tip #6: A culture of Success

Celebrate the little successes along the way

Success begets success

Q&A

It starts with you

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