Collaborative strategies work for teams when they're designed by teams where each person is heard, valued, and held accountable. The authors provide a practical guide for project team leaders and individual contributors who want their teams to play by a better set of rules.

TODAY'S TEAMS want more alignment among their members, better decision-making processes, and a greater sense of ownership over their work. Experts in designing teams, David and Mary Sherwin show that any team can achieve these goals with the right rituals. Seemingly simple, a ritual is a series of behaviors performed in a specific order. With a team, however, the right ritual can foster and support a collective point of view. Turning People into Teams offers dozens of practical rituals for finding a common purpose at the beginning of a project, getting unstuck, and wrapping things up before moving on to new teams. By implementing just a few of these rituals, a team can capture the strengths of each individual for incredible results, making choices together that matter.