Learning material on (self-organized) teamwork

General information on self-managing teams / teams

 Jansen, H. (2016). Self-Organizing Teams: How to Avoid 3 Common Pitfalls

 Kaltenecker, S. & Hundermark, P. (2014). What Are Self-Organizing Teams?

 OpenLearn (The Open University): Self-managed teams & how they work

 Sillitoe, A. (2015). How to create a high performance culture (TEDx Talk)

 Thomas, J. (2012). The power and illusion of self-organizing teams. Project Management
Institute.

 Happy Melly: Self-organizing teams: How to inspire self-organization?

 Kirkpatrick, D. (2013). Beyond empowerment – are we ready for the self-managed

organization? (TEDx Talk)

 Bill Wake on Self-Organization (Coursera video)

 Salin, N. (2017). Supporting proactivity in agile project teams through self-organizing and
shared leadership.

Leader’s role

 Druskat, V.U. & Wheeler, J.V. (2004). How to lead a self-managing team. MIT Sloan
Management Review

 Cohn, M. (2012): Leading a Self-Organizing team (video)

 Sinek, S. (2016). Leaders eat last: Why some teams pull together and others don’t
(Microsoft Research)

 Moen, T. (2015). Leading w/ Liberty: Lessons in self-organization from the fire ground
(video)

 Test: Servant leadership

Team roles

 Batsios, N. (2015). Self-organizing agile teams: roles, practices and factors

Building trust within the team

 Building team trust using a Trust Canvas

 Building trust inside your team: Creating a strong, cohesive group. (MindTools Toolkit)

 Trust building in business teams: Definition, activities & exercises (Study.com course,
free for 5 days)
  Trust building exercises: http://www.highperformanceteams.org/hpt_tbe.htm

 Hakanen, M. & Soudunsaari, A. (2012). Building Trust in High-Performing Teams.

Technology Innovation Management Review, 2(6), 38-41.

Conflicts

 Resolving Team Conflict: Building Stronger Teams by Facing Your Differences (MindTools
Toolkit)

 Townsley, C.A. Resolving conflict in work teams

 5 Effective Strategies to Resolve Team Conflict

 Campbell, C. & Conflict, S.C. Conflict- Use It, Don’t Defuse It (TEDx Talk)

Teamwork / collaboration

 Bonnie, E. (2016). Ultimate guide to team building activities that don’t suck.

 Intervention: Role negotiation

 Levinson, S. & Levinson, J. (2015). Successful collaboration (TEDx Talk)

Negotiation techniques

 Brett, J.M. Friedman, R., & Behfar, K. (2009). How to Manage Your Negotiating Team.
Harvard Business Review.

Feedback challenges and solutions

 Berczuk, S. (2016). Feedback Challenges in Self-Organizing Teams

 Daigo Tanaka (2011). Feedback loops for successful self-organizing teams

 Porath, C. (2016). Give your team more effective positive feedback

 Vishwanath, A. (2012). Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams.

Self-management skills

 Tulgan. B. (2017). Teaching the fundamentals of self-management:

 How to improve your self-management skills?

 Test your self-management skills

Case stories

 Zalando: Why do we have autonomous teams?

 NewsCred: Self-organizing teams: Our learnings and successes