Game of Teams

In Game of Teams, Winsor Jenkins introduces a story focused on collaborative leadership development. Written in the form of an allegory, we follow the leadership development path of a newly promoted manager who must transition from an individual contributor role to a manager role. With the strong support of a team coach, he is tasked with embracing the idea that a collaborative mind-set is a "need-to-have" leadership quality to unlock the collaboration code and succeed in leading his team. As the story unfolds, Jenkins lays out a new management framework or model for developing a collaborative mind-set and skill set. Described as a Collaborative Operating Platform, this powerful, yet simple model helps managers and people on teams function with a high level of interdependence to optimize team performance - a task that is essential to a team's ability to perform in today's team-based world of work! With the need to effectively collaborate on teams to achieve success in today's world only increasing, more and more people are realizing the critical value and competitive edge that collaborative leadership brings to organizations. Jenkins' enlightening story lays out a clear and compelling path for developing a collaborative mind-set and skill set that resonates with leaders at all levels.