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  • The other day I was browsing my Feedly, and there was an article that mentioned the so

  • call T-shaped team and the T-shaped skill caught my attention.

  • So what is a T-shaped team or T-shaped skills?

  • Let's find out with People Also Ask.

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  • you what other people are searching on Google that relates to your query.

  • Today's keyword is T-shaped, we'll discuss what T-shaped abilities and T-shaped teams

  • are, as well as why T-shaped teams may become more relevant in the future for a business.

  • So let's start with our first PAA: What does it mean to be T shaped?

  • Google's auto-generated answer is extracted from an article titled “T-Shaped Skills

  • - Overview, History, Other Skill Typespublished by Corporate Finance Institute,

  • which is a financial analyst certification organization that provides online training

  • and education for finance and investment professionals.

  • According to this article, a T-shaped individual has outstanding knowledge and abilities in

  • specialized areas and is skilled at working collaboratively with others.

  • In the 1980s the term "T-shaped man" aka “T-shaped personwas used internally by McKinsey & Company

  • for recruiting and developing consultants and partners.

  • Here are some advantages of Hiring T-Shaped individuals according to this article:

  • 1.Good at collaboration: T-shaped people are able to engage with others and understanding their

  • overall goals because of their capacity to discuss concerns across the workplace.

  • 2.Flexibility: While T-shaped person may have a major area of competence, they can

  • nevertheless contribute their skills to other high-priority areas that demand their help.

  • 3.Having both hard skills and soft skills: T-shaped employees, in addition to hard abilities like design or programming,

  • also have soft skills like networking and critical thinking,, A T-shape employee sounds useful, but you

  • know what is even more useful?A T-shaped team!

  • So What are T shaped teams?

  • Google's auto-generated answer is linked to an article titledHere's the Thing About

  • "T-shaped" Peoplepublished by Adventures with Agile, which is a global training and

  • coaching provider specializing in enterprise-wide agility.

  • This article argues that a common misunderstanding inside many organizations is that a single

  • individual must hold all skills.

  • In reality, building a T-shaped team is more feasible and important than expecting everyone

  • in a team to be a T-shaped person.

  • A T-shaped team does not require each member to have every talent; rather, the entire team

  • must be T-shaped.

  • According to this article, the benefits of a T-shaped team includes: Reduce team dependencies,

  • which means fewer issues with coordination and competing priorities.

  • Reduce information loss and reducing the number of handoffs between knowledge silos.

  • Broaden and deepen individual team members' talents over time through collaborative teamwork.

  • However, according to this article, trying to T-shape everything is not always achievable.

  • For example, if the skill set is extremely specialized, expensive, or regulated, you

  • will most likely have to live with this dependency.

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  • Today we learned what is the difference between a T-shaped person and a T-shaped team, and

  • why should a company focus on the latter, as well as some of the limitations of the

  • T-Shaped concept.

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