High Performing Teams Through Actionable Understanding
Building an effective, high performing team is part art and part science. At its foundation, is a common understanding of each other and then the use of that understanding to collaborate towards agreed upon goals with a common accurate understanding of the threats and opportunities in pursuing them. It sounds reasonably simple, but it rarely is. What complicates this, most often, is the lack of an actionable understanding of each other resulting in conflict, inaccurate perceptions, drama and considerable wasted effort. Our experience has proven that by addressing the foundational issues with accurate insightful data on motivations, natural tendencies, attitudes, preferences and competencies, you can greatly accelerate the process of creating a sustainable high performing team. Below, we share some of the concepts of our data-driven process. We invite you to discuss with us your team effectiveness strategies and challenges.
Think through the ideal levels of the following and rate them from 1 to 9 where 1 (ONE) is Really Bad, 3 is Rather Poor, 4 is OK, 7 is Ideal, 8 is A Bit Too Much and 9 is Over the top/Way Overdone
When we ask team members to do this, we find wide variance on many teams - but what we also find, is that provides an effective pathway to gain consensus on where the threats and opportunities are. One of the most common results is the convergence on the need to focus on self and team awareness.
With many, there is a stigma attached to the subject of team building programs because many are designed with the objective of being fun and social but with little demonstrated lasting value. There is nothing wrong with fun and social for a holiday party, but investing time with your team can and should build the foundation for success and not just be a fun kick-off. Here we discuss how team building should be laying the foundation for team performance.
Many teams reach a level of good performance for a time but then backslide taking a long time to regain it and then they, invariably backslide again. With remote teams, this is even more common. In this video discussion, we introduce the two team paradoxes and discuss how to diminish the level backsliding by having the fundamentals in the place.
How do you achieve high performance in teams especially with those that are dispersed and remote? It's about making sure you have a strong foundation built on actionable understanding of self, team members and purpose. In this video discussion, we explain the process for achieving actionable understanding.
Developed initially as a way to improve team effectiveness by creating a lasting improvement in self-awareness, the ATP program builds on improved accurate self-awareness to create team awareness, shared values, shared vision and more effective conflict resolution and problem solving. This provides the foundation for clarity of purpose and vision. In this video discussion, we overview how the process works so you can understand how it could be used to impact your key teams.