How to Improve Cross-Functional Collaboration and Trust
February 24, 2022Many business leaders see cross-functional collaboration as the key to innovation and optimal business performance. Organizations with...
How to Explain Your Lean Culture to a New Hire
February 18, 2022I was chatting with a colleague about customer success in enterprise software companies and the conversation turned to the onboarding...
How Cross-functional Training Maximizes Employee Value
July 6, 2021The traditional siloed approach to business operations where everyone stays in their "lane" is giving way to a more cooperative,...
11 Reasons to Use Cross-Functional Teams
October 8, 2020Organizations turn to cross-functional teams for a variety of reasons. Almost everyone can agree that this type of collaboration is...
How to Keep a Remote Workforce Engaged in Improvement
April 6, 2020Before I start this post on how to keep a workforce that has suddenly moved to a remote model due to the coronavirus engaged and motivated,...
7 Simple Tips for Building Cross Functional Teams
August 3, 2016Last year, research by the Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional, meaning that “They fail on...
6 Reasons Why Your Cross Functional Teams Need Software to Collaborate
June 1, 2016In most organizations, the most challenging problems are those that span multiple teams, departments, or divisions. For example, many...
Catchball: An Essential Practice for Flat Organizations
November 24, 2015A flat organizational structure with few or no levels of middle management can be extremely conducive to innovation and improvement....
How I Learned the Habit of Exceptional Cross Functional Teams
February 11, 2020When I was 22 and just starting my career, I was the administrative assistant to the President of a software company. One of my...