Teams need to attend to three elements in order to be successful in their work: task, relationship, and process. Balancing and attending to these three can lead to high functioning, creative, successful teams. This episode explains what each of these are and how to attend to all three.What You’ll Learn* The difference between task, relationship, and process for teams* Why teams need to attend to task, relationship, and process, but not at exactly the same time.Resources* Episode 23 – How Conflict Impact Creativity* Episode 8 – FourSight, an Interview with Blair Miller* Episode 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 – The Creative Problem Solving Process* Climer Consulting Facebook Page* Amy’s Twitter Feed* Book: The One Thing by Keller and PapasanThe Weekly ChallengeTake a look at the team(s) you are in. Where can they make the most improvement – in task, relationship, or in process? Talk with your team about the importance of each of these and dialogue about how you can improve to make the team even stronger.TranscriptFeel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!Transcript for Episode #034: Three Elements of Successful TeamsAmy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 34. Today’s episode is about the three elements each team needs in order to be successful. I want to explain these three and then want to have you take some time to reflect to think about which of these three do we have and are we doing well in our team,  and which do we need to work on? So here they are: task, relationship, and process. So let me explain each of those and talk about what they mean and what they look like. We are going to start with Task. Tasks [In some ways task is the easiest and most obvious. Task just means what are we doing as a team, what is our purpose, what do we need to get accomplished, what do we need to finish. That is our task. Let’s say we are marketing team, we’re trying to figure out which slogan we need for a new campaign. That’s our task to figure that out. Whether to come up with a new slogan, whether to evaluate existing option, our task is to make a decision on which slogan. Another example of a task might be that you are planning a conference. Your task is to plan that conference and to put on an amazing, awesome conference for your clients and your customers. That’s the task at hand. Most teams understand tasks, understand that, “yeah, we have something to get done, we have something to do.” Of course, understanding  and doing it are often two different things and so some teams do struggle with being successful in getting their tasks done. Part of the reason may be because of the other two,