Make the work clearer
Turn recognized teamwork into strategies, workflows, responsibilities, agreements, and shared practices people can understand and use.
Teamwork Applications in DC
Give your Team practical ways to make teamwork easier.
Teamwork Applications turn recognizable teamwork into practical ways to communicate, plan, organize, administer, preserve, and coordinate shared work across DC.
ChecksStrategiesResourcesAssistantsToolsRecordsWorkflowsAppsSystems
Practical forms for Required Teamwork
A Teamwork Application is not limited to software.
It can be a Check, Strategy, Resource, Assistant, Tool, Record, Workflow, App, or System that makes the teamwork a Team already needs easier to recognize, use, and continue.
What Teamwork Applications can do
What could be easier for your Team?
Begin with recognizable work. Then find a practical form that can make it clearer, more usable, and easier to continue.
Keep important teamwork organized
Keep Decisions, Needs, Offerings, Events, Tasks, resources, responsibilities, and recurring work recognizable.
Give the Team useful tools
Use practical tools organized around the teamwork the Team actually needs to perform.
Make Coordination more dependable
Help work continue across meetings, changing responsibilities, changing people, scattered information, and changing Conditions.
Make shared work easier to use
Help people see what is happening, what has been decided, what is needed, what is offered, and what comes next.
Preserve what matters
Turn recognized teamwork into durable records and resources while the Team chooses what should carry forward.
Recognize first → Structure second → Preserve what the Team chooses
Explore Teamwork Applications
Six featured Applications.
These are six featured examples within a broader collection of 18 Teamwork Applications.
01Check
Team Checks
Seeing and discussing current strengths, concerns, Needs, experiences, and open questions.
Who it can helpTeams reflecting together before deciding what should happen next.
02Teamification
Teamify Anything
Seeing how a subject’s own language expresses Players, Practice, Offense, and Defense.
Who it can helpTeams working with familiar sources, standards, topics, documents, or ideas.
03App
Teamwork App
Keeping Decisions, Needs, Offerings, Events, and Tasks visible and connected.
Who it can helpTeams coordinating important information, responsibilities, participation, and follow-through.
04Learning Resource
Teamwork Teacher
Helping a Team learn, prepare, and build Capacity for the work ahead.
Who it can helpTeams, facilitators, educators, and participants preparing to work together.
05Calculator
Teamwork Cost Calculator
Exploring Unrecognized Teamwork Cost, improvement, implementation cost, benefit, and net value.
Who it can helpTeams comparing the potential value and cost of practical improvements.
06Interactive Tool
Teamwork Recognition Tool
Comparing multiple sources across Players, Practice, Offense, and Defense.
Who it can helpTeams exploring source language, standards, fields, roles, or familiar subjects.
Start with the Need
What does your Team need to make easier?
Explore through the work the Team recognizes. The Need can lead to an existing Application, an adaptation, or something that still needs development.
01Make Decisions↗02Communicate Needs↗03Share Offerings↗04Coordinate Events↗05Manage Tasks↗06Organize meetings↗07Assess teamwork↗08Learn and prepare↗09Clarify responsibilities↗10Share resources↗11Preserve agreements↗12Coordinate participation↗13Support a project↗14Manage recurring work↗15Maintain records↗16Understand teamwork cost↗17Recognize source material↗
One featured Application
Sample Teamwork App
The Teamwork App is one Teamwork Application: a shared workspace for keeping Decisions, Needs, Offerings, Events, and Work visible and connected.
Sample interface shown for illustration.
Team Home
A shared view of the Conditions, Decisions, membership, Capacity, Needs, Offerings, Events, Work, and learning recognized by a Team.
Customized Applications
Start with the teamwork.
Sometimes an existing Teamwork Application fits. Sometimes something needs to be adapted, combined, or developed around what the Team is already trying to accomplish.
01Need02Decision03Offering04Event05Task06Teamification07Strategy08Current process09Workflow10Existing tool11Document12Requirements13Teamwork App record14Assistance output15Practical challenge
Suggest an Application Applications create experience
Use creates new information.
When a Team uses an Application, it can learn more about the teamwork. What works, what changes, and what remains unresolved create New Conditions.
- 01Conditions
- 02Capacity
- 03Connections
- 04Coordination
- 05New Conditions
Teamwork contextDo we know how this works?
Administration helps Teams make the Coordination required for continuing teamwork understandable and dependable.
Defense → Administration → Coordination → AlignmentContinue where useful
What might make this easier to continue?
DC Teams can begin with a practical Need, an existing Application, or work that needs a more useful form.