“What’s the one thing that you want to improve the most when it comes to your team culture?” – I often ask senior leaders as we start to scope out what support might be needed for them.

“Collaboration” - almost instantly they respond.

I love this response - it opens up the possibility to dive in and learn more about the conditions under which a team collaborates. When I start to uncover what’s underneath the need for better collaboration, we often land on these questions:

How can we improve the relationships within our team? How can we create psychological safety so that we can talk about what’s most important? How can we promote cross-team communication? How can we become more aware of each other – our needs and expectations? How can we make work to flow in a stable and predictable way?

Powerful questions, don’t you think?