The Team Network Effect – Webinar

High-performance teams are essential for organizations to execute on business outcomes. Yet, here’s a warning: i4cp research found a 39% productivity loss from not managing collaboration in teams more intentionally.

Today’s teams are more complex than conventional methodologies support—teams are far larger, more interconnected, and more distributed than ever before. So how can leaders increase the contribution of their teams despite the complexity of collaboration required?

Join us for an enlightening session featuring i4cp’s Senior Vice President of Research Rob Cross, who will share highlights from i4cp’s latest study of team effectiveness. We will focus on three points of collaboration that the research shows is statistically related to both team effectiveness and market performance:

• The pattern of collaboration within the team – replicating high performance practices and avoiding drift into any dysfunction.
• The quality of connections within the team – with specific emphasis on two forms of trust as being highly predictive of top performing teams
• The external collaborations that are distributed through the team to promote effectiveness and efficiency

SPEAKERS

Rob Cross
Partner

For more than 20 years, Rob Cross has studied the underlying networks of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers.

Working with more than 300 organizations and reaching thousands of leaders from the front line to the C-suite, he has identified specific ways to cultivate vibrant, effective networks at all levels of an organization and any career stage.

Through research and writing, speaking and consulting, and courses and tools, Rob’s network strategies are transforming the way people lead, work and live in a hyper-connected world.

Currently a Senior Vice President of Research for i4cp and the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Rob is also the co-founder and research director of the Connected Commons, a consortium of over 150 leading organizations accelerating network research and practice.

He has written over 50 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Academy of Management Executive and Organizational Dynamics. His work has also been repeatedly featured in venues such as Business Week, Fortune, The Financial Times, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, Inc. and Fast Company.

A graduate of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce (where he later taught), Rob earned an MBA from UVA’s Darden School and completed doctoral work at Boston University. In his spare time Rob has become an avid cyclist, logging 100-150 miles a week with a group of similarly crazy old guys. He also loves playing tennis, spending time on the water fishing and skiing, hiking, listening to live music and is actively involved in his church. Practicing what he preaches on well-being he recently became PADI certified for Scuba and is loving the new world of friends and experiences this aspect of life has opened up.

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