Strengthening the Relationship Infrastructure to Build High-Performing Teams

This is a blog post I co-wrote with one of my clients from Vistaprint - full posts live on his blog.

Teams, not individuals, are the essential building blocks of sense-making and action-taking in organizations.  Research, theory, and experience tell us that great teams depend as much on the relationships between people, as the people themselves.  Relationships are the connective tissue that hold teams together.  Improving the skills of individuals is like lifting weights without strengthening and stretching the ligaments and tendons that connect them.  There’s a better research-driven way…