Teamwork: Leading Effective Team Reviews

The video emphasizes the importance of regular team reviews to enhance teamwork. It discusses facilitating team conversations, evaluating interactions, improving meetings, managing skills and workloads, handling issues, and decision-making. It introduces two team review exercises: Mad, Sad, Glad, and Starfish, to identify and address team dynamics effectively.

Why is it important to focus on the process of teamwork rather than just tasks?

• To reduce the number of team reviews

• To achieve sustainable changes and better results

• To improve the quality of team meetings

• To ensure tasks are completed on time

What should be considered when evaluating team interactions?

• The quality of communication and respect

• The number of tasks completed

• The frequency of team meetings

• The individual performance of team members

How can team meetings become ineffective over time?

• By having too many participants

• By not adapting to the changing needs of the team

• By focusing too much on individual tasks

• By being too short in duration

What is a key consideration when assessing team workloads?

• Increasing the frequency of team meetings

• Ensuring everyone has the same amount of work

• Making sure workloads are challenging and motivating

• Reducing the number of tasks assigned

What is the purpose of addressing 'elephants in the room' during team reviews?

• To focus on individual performance

• To avoid uncomfortable discussions

• To reduce the number of team meetings

• To ensure all issues are openly discussed and resolved

What is the 'Mad, Sad, Glad, and Add' exercise used for?

• To evaluate individual performance

• To reduce team workload

• To identify team members' feelings and areas for improvement

• To increase the number of team meetings

In a Starfish review, what does the team discuss?

• Individual performance metrics

• The frequency of team meetings

• What to start, stop, keep, do more, and do less of

• The number of tasks completed