‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’
Margaret Mead
True high performing teams outperform individual working groups every time*, furthermore, pseudo teams (you know, the ones that struggle and just haven’t got it together) have the lowest performance outputs of all social structures in business, the difference is vast!!
* Katzenbach and Smith – The Wisdom of Teams
The good news is that poor performing teams can easily be developed and transformed; due to internal dynamics they nearly always require a bit of expert outside help, that’s where we come in.
Re-Think has years of experience in developing teams into high performance work units, teams with a such a strong sense of self belief that they feel ready and able to tackle any task you can throw at them.
We have worked with the formation of high performing project teams for a specific task, helped poor performers raise the bar, and rising stars to increase their performance. If you (or your team) fall into any of these categories please give us a call to see how we can help.
01539 739050
You will find our programmes enjoyable, challenging, thought-provoking, and results orientated. We give a sense of direction, tackle thorny issues and a establish a common culture or way of working. We stretch teams so they understand the need for a compelling sense of purpose. We re-create issues faced in work so they can be discussed and reconciled, and utilise some of the best experiential trainers in the business.
Key indicators of a high performing teams:
- Energy – shown by a sense of commitment to the collective task rather than energy being invested into politics and self-protection.
- Purpose – high performance teams have a clear sense of collective purpose that pulls them together to achieve. It will be seen as an achievable yet stretching target.
- Common way of working/clearly defined sense of culture.
- Commitment to each other and each others development.
- Open communication including open debate over areas of disagreement, once decisions are made the team all stands by them.
- A sense of both challenge and support to and from all team members.
How does your team compare?
