High performing team templates for businesses (Part 1)
Why is it that some teams perform well while others perform badly under the same conditions? How can one determines the effectiveness of a team to be able to know how to improve it? It is has been established, according to majority of opinions, that both technical and interpersonal factors are important for effective teamwork, even though the latter is considered to be more important in effective team building.
This article is concerned with the salient factors, templates or questions that can be used to identify the strengths and development needs of your own team. Such checklists and questions are listed and explained thus:-
Competency and placement of team members?
For a team to be effective, each and every individual must be placed in positions according to their individual competencies. If team members are not properly placed in accordance with their competencies, the effectiveness of the team may be killed. A highly talented person that's ill placed can throw off the functioning of the team. So management must pay attention to individual competencies in relation to placement.
Clear goals are important
It's impossible to achieve success without having clear goals. You can't get there without knowing where you are actually going. It's just impossible. So make sure everyone in your team are not in confusion as to the team's purpose, function and objective. This is very important.
The team's information sharing must be efficient and effective
It has been established that teams that perform well do not guard information; they share it, instead. In order to make the best decisions and achieve team target, each and every member of the team must be provided with relevant information and such information provision has to be timely enough to be advantageous.
Unambiguous roles and responsibilities
The team's effectiveness will greatly be hindered if roles and responsibilities are ambiguous and difficult to be defined in clear terms. This is because it will cause misunderstanding and conflicts both of which are not healthy for the team's effectiveness. So management must make sure that roles and responsibilities are clearly specified to enable people to be accountable for accomplishing their part of the team's task.
Diversify values
Yes this is another important factor, and a common mistake among the executives which can be a source for interpersonal conflict. People don't all work the same way, neither do they have the same styles of working. Team members must be made to understand and appreciate this fact. Executives have a duty to make team members to value each other's differences so as to leverage each other's strengths for the team's success. In this regard, team building exercises can be a great tool in helping individuals to appreciate diversity and work together more efficiently.
The above are some of the tested d proven high team performance checklist. Implement them in your team today; wait and see your team's effectiveness improve tremendously. Thanks for reading.
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