The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams: New Bioteams Video

November 30, 2010 | article by Ken Thompson in Bioteams Features (104)

In this new short audio/video I share 7 secrets on how teams can significantly improve performance by adopting simple techniques from Bioteams. These techniques are particularly relevant to large cross-functional teams and multi-enterprise teams whose members are not co-located and spend much of their working days on the road or on client site.

The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams:

TEAM ORGANISATION
1. Clear rules of engagement
2. Know what they can count on each other for
3. Shared Values and Behaviours

TEAM OPERATION
4. When One Knows All Know
5. Ask The Network
6. Fast co-invention
7. Leveraged Engagement

Watch the audio/video: The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams

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About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.

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Bioteams Books Reviews

The Internet and social engagement

March 7, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Authentic social experience is beyond the web.In On the Internet by Hubert Dreyfus, a UC-Berkeley philosophy professor, provides a truely unique philosophical perspective on the internet. Dreyfus seriously challenges a number of widely held assumptions such as the usefulness of search engines, the effectiveness of distance learning and the possibility of meaningful virtual relationships.

Buy it now from:
Amazon.Com
Amazon.Co.UK

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Learning from mother nature's designs becomes scientific mainstream

A new scientific discipline biomimicry (also known as biomimetrics) is gaining a lot of attention.

Defined as "taking ideas from nature and implementing them in another technology such as engineering, design, computing, etc."

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The 3 types of Bioteam: Business networks, Fan Communities and Mobile teams

November 3, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Bioteams Features (104)

Since publishing the Bioteams book it has become very clear that there are a small number of defining characteristics of a bioteam. For best results you should ensure that bioteams is right for your particular team / group / community challenge. Here is how to check!

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How symbiotic is your collaboration

May 27, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Bioteams Features (104)

Symbiosis is a central tenet of bioteams which in bioteams means you should 'partner date' widely but commit to partners very carefully. But according to wikipedia there are four different types of symbiotic behavior possible between two different biological species.

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