Integrated Teams
When you break traditionally assumed barriers to working together and build a shared commitment to business outcomes, teams of all types, including leadership, functional and project management teams, can achieve extraordinary results.
Everyone involved is working toward the same objective. Roles and responsibilities are agreed upon by key stakeholders. Leadership development and training ensures the team will be led by example to build and modify infrastructure to achieve results. In the end, corporate responsibility and personal responsibility are combined.
Expectations of each other are defined and reviewed regularly, to assure that each person or functional group is holding themselves accountable for meeting their commitments. Corporate accountability results in a stronger and more transparent work force at all levels.
Key business processes are reviewed to identify interdependencies between groups or individuals. Functional analysis of all business processes serves to identify areas needing team attention from either project or support teams. It is important to clarify "who will deliver what to whom and by when" at these areas of interdependence.
And overarching philosophy of everyone "taking responsibility for the whole" vs. focusing on "my piece of the process" is created. This transformational mindset enables people to support each other and build accountability into the system.
