Forming a team is often treated as a logistical task: bring people together, give them a goal, and get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In reality, forming a team is a leadership act<\/strong>. And when people come from different functions, backgrounds, or organizations, it quickly becomes a real challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership<\/em>, I sat down with Valentin Yonchev and Matt Takane from Red Hat Open Innovation Labs<\/strong> to explore a deceptively simple question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you actually form a team?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Valentin and Matt have extensive experience building cross-functional teams<\/strong> in a wide range of contexts. Teams assembled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than sharing abstract principles, they describe practical ways to move from a group of people to a team that can actually work together<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this conversation, we discuss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you are assembling a temporary working group or launching a longer initiative, you will find concrete ideas you can apply immediately in your own context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the discussion, Matt mentions the Open Practice Library<\/strong>, a valuable resource for discovering concrete practices that support collaboration, learning, and experimentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrom a group of people to a real team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What you will take away from this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Practices and references<\/h2>\n\n\n\n