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Mark Cruth
Modern Work Coach, Atlassian
Interpersonal alchemy
The magic behind high performing teams
Let’s
experiment 2. Get to know each other by
answering the following:
What's something you're interested in that most
people haven’t heard of?
1. Find a partner
If you could live at any time in history, when would it be?
How long would you survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
4
minutes
Alchemy
Alchemy
Interpersonal alchemy
Interpersonal alchemy
13%
Teams are healthy
Atlassian State of Teams Report
Question Research Hypthesize
Experiment Analyze Share
The scientific method
Step 1: Ask a question
There are lots of questions…
Teams
Is it putting together all
your best people?
Budget
Is it giving them
unlimited budget?
Challenges
Is it giving them a
challenging project?
Why do some
teams perform better than
others?
MARK CRUTH (RIGHT NOW)
Step 2: Conduct research
Examples of
high performing
teams
Extreme transparency
Resolute believe in
Decentralized decision making
Toy Story
Movie
Make decision making
transparent and faster
Decentralized decision making
Toy Story
Movie
Extreme transparency
Resolute belief in
team vision and mission
Toy Story
Movie
Make decision making
transparent and faster
Extreme transparency
Trust people to rise
to the challenge
No one person is bigger
We need to have the
Rugby
teams
Trust people to rise
We need to have
the right skills
We need to have
Rugby
teams
Trust people to rise
We need to have
No one person is bigger
than the team
Rugby
teams
Cross-functional teams
vs siloed departments
The Ford
Taurus
Create direction
Build in psychological
Cross-functional teams
The Ford
Taurus
Create direction
and autonomy
Build in psychological
Cross-functional teams
The Ford
Taurus
Create direction
Build in psychological
safety at the start
Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
Embracing Uncertainty
sustains Growth
Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
Step 3: Construct a hypothesis
We believe embedding practices into a
team that clarify purpose, decentralizes
decision making, builds psychological
safety and trust, and normalizes
uncertainty will result in a teams full
potential being unleashed.
We believe embedding practices into a
team that clarify purpose, decentralizes
decision making, builds psychological
safety and trust, and normalizes
uncertainty will result in a teams full
potential being unleashed.
Step 4: Experiment!
Experiments!
CREATE A VISION EXERCISE
Ingredients
• Identify your teams values, purpose,
mission, strategy, and goals
• Teams assume they know it (do they?)
• Vision statements can be simple
Results
• Unites the team together through
a shared understanding
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3epfVbl
Ingredients
• Decisions take too long to make
• Decentralizes decision making
• Makes the “who” in decision making
explicit and how other can contribute
Results
• Increases psychological ownership
within the team
DELEGATION POKER
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3fOaLWW
Ingredients
• Takes an honest look at how you team
• Similar to a retrospective, but focuses
on the current state of the team
• Should be conducted on a regular basis
Results
• Identifies team strengths and
areas for growth
HEALTH MONITOR
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3BsvcQj
Ingredients
• Team feels they are buried in meetings
• Take inventory of the calendar
• Reviewing team “rituals” and identify
which to keep, change, remove
Results
• Eliminate waste and increase value of
time in meetings
RITUAL RESET
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3CUEGG1
Ingredients
• The only thing needed is a room/zoom
and a willingness to experiment!
• Starts with a prompt
• Built on the rule of “yes, and…”
Results
• Enhances team creativity, empathy
and ability to adapt
TEAM IMPROV
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3ViehJr
1. Find a partner
Let’s
experiment
4. Follower - your goal is to mirror
their movement back to them
(60 seconds)
2. Pick someone to be the lead
3. When I say “Go” leads you will
move you hands / body around
Step 5: Analyze the data
+
Step 6: Communicate
the results
Call to Action
#InterpersonalAlchemy
Experiment Analyze Share
Thank you!
Let’s Connect!
mcruth@atlassian.com

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