Listen to this free podcast interview with Joseph Flahiff at the PMI Global Congress 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona.

1. Episode 298: Why Some Teams
Flop, While Other Teams Rock!
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No other single factor has as much predictive power of the success or failure of your projects
and programs than the health of your teams. Today more and more work is being performed by
teams, both in operations and in new service/product development. But what exactly is a team?
What distinguishes great teams? Is it possible to create great teams, or do they just happen
when you are lucky?
This interview will explore these concepts and help you with specific suggestions to transform
your team into a team that rocks. You will learn that teams that rock have three things in
common: a sense of safety, mutual accountability for goals, and they are necessarily
interdependent. Teams are the engine that gets most work done in business today, and great
teams can make your entire organization grow.
By the end of the discussion you will see, that you too can create a team that rocks if you will
focus your efforts on creating a context where teams that rock can flourish. In particular we
discuss creating a team culture that encourages collaboration not just cooperation, cultivating a
sense of safety, encouraging team members to know each other, and by creating a more
distributed decision making model subtly.
Interview with Joseph Flahiff recorded at the PMI
Global Congress 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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At the PMI Global Congress 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona

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