Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.
– Carol S. Dweck

Margie Carter, in the book Developing People in Early Childhood Organizations,  describes her work with directors and teachers who ask for help in strengthening staff teamwork. She explains that when she is “working with programs to build strong teams and the ability to collaborate, I focus on recognizing key indicators that can be found in a program.”

These are the indicators of teamwork she looks for:

• “Clear Communications
• Respectful Interactions and Demonstrations of Trust
• Using Conflicts to Discover and Negotiate Perspectives
• Building on Each Other’s Ideas and Strengths
• Reliability and Responsibility”