Teamwork

At Level 3, you're a glue person—the kind of teammate who brings others together, strengthens collaboration across functions, and fosters a healthy team culture. You help your team move efficiently, resolve friction early, and create patterns others can follow. You don't just work well with others—you make others better at working together. You spot misalignments, clear up ambiguity, and nudge the group toward clarity and cohesion. You make the team feel like a team.

Key Behaviors

  • Helps teammates navigate uncertainty or interpersonal friction
  • Brings together the right people to resolve cross-functional challenges
  • Shares credit generously and amplifies the contributions of others
  • Facilitates smooth collaboration across disciplines or roles
  • Identifies and improves team habits that affect communication and cohesion

Common Struggles

  • May take on too much emotional or coordination overhead
  • Might avoid setting boundaries for fear of disrupting harmony
  • Risk of being seen as a go-between instead of enabling others to collaborate directly

Success Indicators

You know you're successful when you:

  • Are a steadying, unifying presence on the team
  • Help people work through uncertainty, miscommunication, or misalignment
  • Improve the team's collaboration culture—not just task completion
  • Are recognized as someone who improves how the team functions together

Mindset Shift

From:

"I help the team work better."

To:

"I scale healthy collaboration across teams, systems, and functions."

Questions to Ask Yourself

  • Where are we repeatedly misaligned or miscommunicating?
  • What rituals or habits could make our teamwork easier to sustain?
  • Who's being left out of conversations that affect them?

Build These Habits

  • 1
    Establish or evolve team rituals to support shared learning and alignment
  • 2
    Model vulnerability and directness in collaborative settings
  • 3
    Encourage quieter voices and create space for multiple styles

Seek Feedback

  • "What makes it easy or hard for you to collaborate on this team?"
  • "Where have we grown as a team—and what's still messy?"
  • "How can I better support team health without becoming a bottleneck?"

Signals You're Ready to Level Up

  • People come to you to resolve tensions or align groups
  • Your collaborative style is referenced or replicated by others
  • You make cross-functional work more human and more productive

Focus Summary

  • Strengthen the bonds
  • Model the rhythm
  • Build the glue

At Level 3, teamwork becomes infrastructure. You're not just part of a good team—you help build what makes teams good.