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Even when teams have a shared purpose, clear strategy, and aligned success measures, cross-functional collaboration can feel harder than it should be.

In any organization, people apply unspoken rules and understood norms to get collective work done — in other words, they collaborate. Over the past 15 years, my team and I have observed and facilitated thousands of meetings…

Try these tips for boosting your virtual team’s creative capacity.

A simple shifts in leadership mindset and behaviors can have an outsized effect on the speed and effectiveness of collaboration.

A leader’s ability to triage, manage and respond to email has an outsized impact on the speed with which her organization can move. Use these life preservers to save your sanity – and your time.

Take a look at your team. Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Has it recently produced something extraordinary? In our experience, there are a finite set of reasons why a team doesn’t collaborate to its full potential. One of those is failing to harness the power of the group’s cognitive diversity.

Time is a valuable asset -- change the way you value your time, and your team will follow suit, resulting in a better experience for everyone.

Every manager, even the best, can fall into the evening-emailing and multitasking-at-meetings traps. These behaviors may seem harmless on the surface, but our research shows that even the small things can have outsized effects on a team.

Make the most of your wait or commute time without needing to boot up your laptop.

Why adopting a set of shared expectations can reduce the friction inherent to collaboration on your team.