True high performing teams outperform individual working groups every time (Katzenbach and Smith – The Wisdom of Teams). Furthermore, pseudo teams, typically those struggling with no sense of purpose, common working practices and a lack of commitment, have the lowest performance outputs of all social structures in business. In fact, you might well improve results by disbanding a poorly performing team and giving them the freedom to work as individuals.
Re-Think consultants have 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.
How do we do it?
Patrick Lencioni has it right in ‘The five dysfunctions of a team’, the foundation to building teams lies in developing trust. Fundamentally trust is created by open dialogue, conversations regarding who we are, what we stand for, common goals, establishing working practices and clarity of roles all work towards developing a unifying commitment .
And, its got to be fun! Our programmes are a balance between a series of linked conversations with projects and challenges to add energy, and bring things to life.
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.
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.
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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?
Suggested reading:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
The wisdom of Teams (kazenbach and Smith)
