On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.