Nametag/card/tent and put them up every time you meet as a group. Team Building Create a Person: Each group gets a long piece of paper. The first person draws the head (not allowing others to see), then folds the drawing over so the next artist cannot see the head. The next person draws the neck, folds the paper, and passes it on. Technology and Innovation for the Future of Production: Accelerating Value Creation 5 technologies on five levels: factory floor, firm, industry, society and the individual. While technologies hold valuable opportunities for efficiency and growth, their current development pace shows they may also exacerbate existing inequalities.

• Speeding Up Team Learning Pdf

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Cardiac surgery is one of medicine's modern miracles. In an operating room no larger than many household kitchens, a patient is rendered functionally dead while a surgical team repairs or replaces damaged arteries or valves. Each operation requires incredible teamwork--a single error can have disastrous consequences. In other words, surgical teams are not all that different from the cross-functional teams that have become crucial to business success. The challenge of team management these days is not simply to execute existing processes efficiently. It's to implement new processes as quickly as possible. But adopting new technologies or new business processes is highly disruptive, regardless of the industry. The authors studied how surgical teams at 16 major medical centers implemented a difficult new procedure for performing cardiac surgery. The setting was ideal for rigorously focusing on how teams learn and why some learn faster than others. The authors found that the most successful teams had leaders who actively managed the groups' learning efforts. Teams that most successfully implemented the new technology shared three essential characteristics. They were designed for learning; their leaders framed the challenge so that team members were highly motivated to learn; and an environment of psychological safety fostered communication and innovation. The finding that teams learn more quickly if they are explicitly managed for learning poses a challenge in many areas of business. Team leaders in business tend to be chosen more for their technical expertise than for their management skills. Team leaders need to become adept at creating learning environments, and senior managers need to look beyond technical competence and identify leaders who can motivate and manage teams of disparate specialists.

Speeding Up Team Learning Pdf

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