The presentation of the team canvas - a strategic tool for small creative teams and startups to get aligned on common goals and vision, resolve conflicts gently and increase productivity. Presented at CIID

1. A quick tool to kick off your project
and get the whole team on the same page
The Team Canvas
theteamcanvas.com | @theteamcanvas

2. Hey, I’m Alex
Designing innovations @Philips Innovation Lab
@IDEO alum, @Hyper Island graduate
theteamcanvas.com | @theteamcanvas | @helloalexivanov
👾

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Let’s talk
creative teamwork
💃🌟🎨💫🚶

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Expectations
🙌🙇👊👯
👻✨🎉

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🙌🙇👊👯
👻✨🎉
Hi-fives, generating great ideas, quick bonding,
doing crazy stuff together, making some magic
happen, clients love it, celebrating great results

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Reality
💩❓💸😨
🙅🎢🔥

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💩❓💸😨
🙅🎢🔥
No idea about the direction, limited budget for user
research, lots of confusion, client doesn’t like our
ideas, emotional roller coaster and heavy deadlines

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Only 17% of teams
are high performance
The research of 700 groups suggests that on average
📈👲👵👴👳
*Susan Wheelan, Creating Effective Teams

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…and it takes from 6 to 8
months for a group
to get there
🕑🕔🕓🕗😧
*Susan Wheelan, Creating Effective Teams

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How do some guys do it
so smoothly? Is there something
they do, that others don’t?
🏂

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IDEO:
Embracing ambiguity
Image source: IDEO.com

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Hyper Island:
Self -leadership
Image source: hyperisland.com

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Valve:
Voting with the desks
Image source: BBC

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4 states
to epiphany
👶 → 👦 → 👱 → 👨

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Forming: everybody is like a
child craving for inclusion
👶

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👶 → 👦
Storming: teenager attitude,
conflicts and fights emerge

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👶 → 👦 → 👱
Norming: growing up and
figuring out how to work
together

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👶 → 👦 → 👱 → 👨
Performing: becoming
mature and working at high
performance

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DEFG
How do we get
there as a team?

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🍱
To understand it, let’s
put it into a bento box

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Great Team: A group of people
working towards a common goal,
while being open about personal
agendas
P G
PG

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with a common Purpose,
sharing similar Values
and having appropriate Skills
P G V
PG
S

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understanding Differences
and Weaknesses of each other,
as well as Needs
P G V
PG N
S W

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and agreeing on common Rules:
the way they Communicate,
Make decisions, Execute, etc.
P G V
PG N
W
R
S

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All this sums up into
something that we call
The Team Canvas
P G V
PG N
S W
R

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Open & distributed under CC 3.0,
easy to self-facilitate,
boosts productivity & sense of teamness,
not a piece of puzzle but a lego block
🆓🙋🚀🌿

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Currently testing with selected
teams. Sign up for pre-launch:
theteamcanvas.com