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Takeaways from WLI Symposium – Building a Great Team
January 20, 2015
Great teams
- Challenge each other in a respectful way
- Support team members regardless of your position
- Seek outside consulting and input from other industries
- Focus on mission
- Create a diverse workplace
- Keep project on pace and meeting deliverables deadlines, maintain clear vision and universally understood ground rules
- Set expectations for performance
- Have a can do attitude
- Know your role and roles of others
Mentoring among team members
- Informal mentors more common
- For women, mentors are often male
- Men can learn more about balance from women