How to Form a Cross-Functional Team That Actually Works

Forming a team sounds simple. In practice, it’s one of the hardest leadership challenges, especially when people come from different roles, backgrounds, or organizations.In this episode, I sit down with Valentin Yonchev and Matt Takane from Red Hat Open Innovation Labs to explore a deceptively simple question: how do you actually form a team?Drawing from their experience building cross-functional teams in a wide range of contexts, we discuss:how to assemble a team for a single meeting, a short engagement, or a longer initiativewhat makes a group of people become a real teampractical signals to adjust when things are not workingconcrete practices you can apply immediately in your own contextThis episode is especially useful if you are leading without formal authority, launching a new initiative, or working across silos.During the conversation, we also reference the Open Practice Library and the idea of pulling the Andon cord as a way to surface problems early and improve collaboration.https://blog-alexis.monville.com/en/2019/06/05/how-to-form-a-team/