"Coherent action from multidisciplinary teams requires that everyone be playing the same game. But the less time team members have spent together-or the more the situation around them changes-the harder it is to agree on what game that is. Unfortunately, newly formed groups and rapidly changing situations are exactly what you're likely to face when leading a team through an emergency."
"So when you're leading (or working on) a multidisciplinary team, how do you make sure everyone understands the mission and starts moving in a common direction? The answer is the meta-conversation -the one you have before you start actually working together. In this article, we'll look at three key questions teams need to agree on before they start acting. The more clarity they have on their shared answers, the more their actions compound. The less alignment, the more they collide."
Coherent action from multidisciplinary teams requires everyone to share the same understanding of mission, risk, urgency, and scope. Newly formed groups and rapidly changing situations make alignment harder, increasing collisions and roadblocks. The meta-conversation before action establishes shared mental models and clarifies whether the situation is a crisis, which allows teams to bend rules and pursue unconventional solutions when stakes demand it. Formal triggers can indicate crisis level in some fields. Clarifying scope and crisis level focuses effort, reduces friction, and enables multidisciplinary groups to coordinate and adapt effectively under pressure.
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