The 3 focal points for building a highly effective team.
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Collective Advantage Australia
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Building a highly effective team is a challenging task for most leaders. With the pressure to get things done and deliver results, leaders often skip over the foundational elements of team development. This leads to teams underperforming and not realising their potential. In complex and dynamic environments leaders may be excused for not focussing on team development, but it comes with the huge cost of ineffectiveness and poor performance.
If a leader wants to build a highly effective team there are 3 integral things to focus on. By focussing on these 3 aspects of team development leaders can position their team to maximise the team's potential and create a collective advantage. That is they can empower the team to achieve much more that each of the team members can do on their own.
1. Set up the essential team attributes.
These are the essential attributes that set the foundation for building a highly effective team. The essential attributes include;
2. Align team enabling conditions.
The following conditions enable the team to maximise its effectiveness. Aligning and utilising them have a significant effect on team performance. The enabling conditions needed are;
3. Establish good team dynamics.
With the essential attributes and enabling conditions in order the overall effectiveness of the team is reliant on good team dynamics. Good team dynamics can be identified by:
If a leader wants to build a highly effective team there are 3 integral things to focus on. By focussing on these 3 aspects of team development leaders can position their team to maximise the team's potential and create a collective advantage. That is they can empower the team to achieve much more that each of the team members can do on their own.
1. Set up the essential team attributes.
These are the essential attributes that set the foundation for building a highly effective team. The essential attributes include;
- The right mix of people with the relevant skills, knowledge, and experience.
- A charter that defines them as a functional team.
- A compelling purpose that focuses team members on a common objective.
2. Align team enabling conditions.
The following conditions enable the team to maximise its effectiveness. Aligning and utilising them have a significant effect on team performance. The enabling conditions needed are;
- Robust processes and structure to enable performance with minimal interference.
- Sponsorship and a supportive environment to enable collaboration.
- Coaching to help identify gaps, get clarity on objectives, and enhance team dynamics.
3. Establish good team dynamics.
With the essential attributes and enabling conditions in order the overall effectiveness of the team is reliant on good team dynamics. Good team dynamics can be identified by:
- The TRUST they display in their actions and relationships.
- SUPPORT team members give to each other to benefit the team.
- How they CHALLENGE norms to identify better ways of working.
- Having a clear, compelling, and aligned PURPOSE.
- How they demonstrate and uphold ACCOUNTABILITY with all stakeholders.
- How they ADAPT to complex and dynamic challenges.
- The way they consistently deliver RESULTS and create IMPACT.
Leaders who want to develop a highly effective team can find out how their team is currently performing with an assessment of these 3 focal points. Assessing team attributes, enabling conditions, and team dynamics allows a leader to diagnose where their team is at and what needs to be focussed on to shift their team into high performance.
To find out more about assessing your team and developing them into a highly effective team contact the team at Collective Advantage Australia today.