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Team Tactics: the best team management workshops in a box

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Ditch chaotic mess. Design great teams.

Team Tactics is a card deck of 54 team management and leadership tactics that help you design, grow and nurture effective teams. Written by team management consultant, Dave Cunningham.

Designed to guide you through the designing and managing teams over the long-term. It takes you from designing a safe environment to work in, right through to how to effectively recognise team members. Giving your people purpose, autonomy, and mastery of their craft.

Team Tactics is used by managers to lead product teams. It’s used by designers to lead design teams. And it’s used by coaches and consultants to level up team management practices in global organisations.

In the Team Tactics Pip Deck, you’ll find: team rituals, retrospective workshops, vision and goal setting, one-to-one sessions, coaching techniques, team health monitoring, effective inter-team communication, stakeholder management and much more.

Find out why our customers love Pip Decks so much. 

Team Strategy System

Have you defined the roles and environment for your team?

EnvironmentEnvironment
Does your team know its direction

DirectionDirection
Does your team have the support it needs?

SupportSupport
Are you able to measure your team’s health?

HealthHealth
Are you helping your team work better together?

CollaborateCollaborate
Do your team know how to share their work clearly?

CommunicateCommunicate
Recognition

Categories

Recipe Recipe

Ideas can change the world. See which problems you can solve by combining different Idea Tactics.

Build Psychological SafetyBuild Psychological Safety

Empower your team to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed.

Become DependableBecome Dependable

Build a strong and dependable team by understanding its complex web of connections.

Bring AlignmentBring Alignment

Connect the dots from vision to execution.

Show ImpactShow Impact

Let your team know the impact they are having.

Environment Environment

Get into the teamwork mindset so you are all setting off together.

Team ModellingTeam Modelling

Model your teams on customer experience. Help remove the silos that lead to poor services and products.

1‒2 hours

Roles and ResponsibilitiesRoles and Responsibilities

Understand each other’s roles better, and learn who is responsible for what.

1‒2 hours

Team CharterTeam Charter

Set your ground rules to bond the team and build a shared understanding and commitment.

1‒2 hours

Team CirclesTeam Circles

Create smaller teams to break down silos, create meaningful conversations and shared responsibility.

1‒2 hours

Direction Direction

Show teams where they need to get to by working out a clear vision, values and principles to get there.

Design PrinciplesDesign Principles

Empower your team to make design decisions with clear concise principles to apply in everyday work.

1‒2 hours

Decision StackDecision Stack

Connect the dots from vision to execution..

1‒2 hours

Team VisionTeam Vision

Create a shared vision to inspire and give high-level guidance to your teams.

1‒2 hours

Frame the ProblemFrame the Problem

Work out what we are looking to achieve.

1‒2 hours

Lean Wardley MappingLean Wardley Mapping

Evolve your team’s practice by finding the most valuable parts to focus working on..

1‒2 hours

Force Field AnalysisForce Field Analysis

Make balanced decisions together by ranking the fors and againsts.

1‒2 hours

Team ValuesTeam Values

While your team vision gives your employees a destination, your team values will help them forge the path to get there.

1‒2 hours

Start with WhyStart with Why

Inspire action by finding and communicating your team’s “why”?

1‒2 hours

Team StrategyTeam Strategy

Help your team make decisions, and give them purpose and the autonomy needed to get stuff done.

1‒2 hours

Support Support

Make sure your team doesn’t get lost along the way by giving them the support they need to succeed.

One-to-OneOne-to-One

Guide your team members to set goals they are motivated to achieve. Understand where they are now and where they want to be.

1 hour

My User ManualMy User Manual

Help your team understand how they can best work with you and each other.

1 hour

Sphere of InfluenceSphere of Influence

Focus your energy and attention where it counts.

1 hour

Maker TimeMaker Time

Help your team spend time practicing their craft.

1 hour

Ritual ResetRitual Reset

Reflect on and re-evaluate your team meetings and processes to create more space for what matters.

1‒2 hours

Diverge Health

Monitor how your teams are doing so you can see clearly when your help is needed the most.

Health MonitorHealth Monitor

Keep track of your teams’ health to learn when and where they need support.

1 hour

Onboarding RetrosOnboarding Retros

Monitor your onboarding process; improve it over time. Help people feel part of your team from day one.

1 hour

Attrition RateAttrition Rate

Get the data to anticipate turnover, act to retain key employees and recruit new ones way ahead of time.

30 mins

Design MaturityDesign Maturity

Understand what your team’s design maturity level is today, and where you want to go in the short and long-term.

1‒2 hours

Collaborate Collaborate

Encourage your team to work together to help them design better teams, products and services.

Community of PracticeCommunity of Practice

Break down silos by creating a safe space for people who share a common interest and passion.

1‒2 hours

Daily SharingDaily Sharing

Form habits of sharing work early and often without eating into your team’s precious time.

30 seconds

Shift Left LensesShift Left Lenses

Create multi-disciplinary collaboration early to avoid duplication and help your team deliver better quality work.

1‒2 hours

Lean UpdatesLean Updates

Discuss what matters across your different teams and disciplines without it becoming a chore or slowing you down.

1 hour

Top TasksTop Tasks

Understand and improve what matters the most to your team or customers.

1‒2 hours

Productivity BlueprintProductivity Blueprint

Spend more time on high-value work and identify inefficiencies and opportunities to improve workflow.

1‒2 hours

Task ModellingTask Modelling

Gain clarity about the steps people go through and the decisions they make to accomplish a specific task.

1‒2 hours

RetrosRetros

Look back on successes and failures in order to learn and improve for next time.

1 hour

Design CritsDesign Crits

Improve your designs by gaining different perspectives while increasing collaboration across disciplines.

1 hour

Get Buy InGet Buy In

Talk to individuals first, involve them deeply in the problem, then get buy in.

1 hour

Communicate Communicate

Encourage people to talk about their work, sharing it early and with clarity to help foster trust.

Write in Plain EnglishWrite in Plain English

SGet your message understood the first time it’s read.

Inclusive Meeting PlaybookInclusive Meeting Playbook

Make people feel part of their meetings.

1‒2 hours

Say What You MeanSay What You Mean

Explain your feelings and needs clearly while creating empathy in your conversations.

Communication MatrixCommunication Matrix

Be intentional with your communications, keep people informed and build trust.

1‒2 hours

Accountability DialAccountability Dial

Hold your team to account without falling into the micromanagement trap.

Agile CommsAgile Comms

Help your team communicate clearly and creatively about their work in progress.

Lean PresentationsLean Presentations

Choose the most important parts of your work, then use common structures to communicate them clearly so they stick in your audience’s memory.

Recognition Recognition

Reward and recognise your teams, efforts to foster a culture of appreciation.

Team AppreciationTeam Appreciation

Put a smile on everyone’s face by sharing good vibes.

1‒2 hours

Appreciation PlaybookAppreciation Playbook

Be consistent in letting people know their efforts are recognised and valued.

1‒2 hours

Goal, Signal, MetricGoal, Signal, Metric

Let your team know the impact they are having.

1 hour
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