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Coordination across team boundaries
Most significant work requires coordination across team boundaries. Effective coordination multiplies the team's impact. Identify where cross-boundary coordination is needed: which other teams, functions, or organizations does your work connect to? What needs to be coordinated—timing, handoffs, shared resources, joint decisions?… An ongoing team scaffold (coordination system), run ongoing, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, dialogic-encounter, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Ongoing)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Prioritize cross-boundary coordination as essential work. Build and maintain relationships with peer leaders. Establish and protect coordination mechanisms. Address coordination failures constructively.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25