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Teams That Get These Factors Right Experience Success
Have you ever wondered how some work groups exhibit effective
teamwork and other teams remain dysfunctional for the life of the team?
People Are Both the Joy and the Problem in Creating Better Teamwork
No matter the team or its reason for existing, humans are in the mix, and each team member brings along all of their baggage—for good and for ill. So, diverse people with different life experiences, different work experiences, and varying degrees of success working with former teams and the accomplishment of prior team missions
converge around a new mission.
Given the complexity of forming a team including
consciously or unconsciously developing team interaction norms and guidelines, ending up with an effective, functioning team is downright amazing.
You can significantly increase the chances of the teams that you join or oversee to make needed contributions. Given
appropriate support and nurture, teams can succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Don't let anything hold you back as you help your teams succeed.
Teams have basic needs that must be acknowledged and fulfilled if you expect your teams to experience their greatest success. No team will succeed if these basics do not exist.
The 10
10 Keys to Successful Teamwork
These ten tips describe the environment that must occur within the team for
successful teamwork to take place. Successful teamwork is the cornerstone for creating a functioning, contributing team.
1 The Team Is Clear About Its Mission
The team understands the goals and is
committed to attaining them. This clear direction and agreement on
mission and
purpose are essential for effective teamwork. Team members must have an overall mission that is agreed upon and that provides the umbrella for all that the team tries to do. This team clarity is reinforced when the organization has
clear expectations for the team's work, goals, accountability, and outcomes.
2. The Team Environment Encourages Reasonable Risks
The team creates an environment in which people are comfortable taking reasonable risks in communicating, advocating positions, and taking action. Team members
trust each other. Team members are not punished for disagreeing;
disagreement is expected and appreciated.
3. Respectful Communication Is the Norm
Communication is
open, honest, and respectful. People feel free to express their thoughts, opinions, and potential solutions to problems. People feel as if they are heard out and listened to by team members who are attempting to understand. Team members
ask questions for clarity and spend
their thought time listening deeply rather than forming rebuttals while their co-worker is speaking.
They do this by formulating questions that will lead them to more deeply understand their teammate's point of view.
4. Strong Sense of Group Commitment
Team members have a strong sense of belonging to the group. They experience a deep commitment to the group’s decisions and actions. This sense of belonging is enhanced and reinforced when the team spends the time to develop
team norms or relationship guidelines together.
Team members are viewed as
unique people with irreplaceable experiences, points of view, knowledge, and opinions to contribute. After all, the purpose of forming a team is to take advantage of the differences.
Otherwise, why would any organization approach projects, products, or goals with a team? In fact, the more a team can
bring out divergent points of view that are thoughtfully presented and supported with facts as well as opinions, the better.
5. Creativity and Innovation Are the Norms
Creativity, innovation, and different viewpoints are expected and encouraged. Comments such as, "we already tried that and it didn't work" and "what a dumb idea" are not allowed or supported. The team members recognize that
the strength in having a team is that every member brings diverseness to the effort to solve a problem, improve a process, reach a goal, or create something new and exciting.
6. Engages in Continuous Improvement
The team is able to constantly
examine itself and continuously improve its processes, practices, and the interaction of team members. The team openly discusses
team norms and what may be hindering its ability to move forward and progress in areas of effort, talent, and strategy.
The team holds review meetings that assess the team's process and progress in approaching and accomplishing the team mission.
The team has a clear understanding about the
five stages of team development and the members know what is required to move the team successfully through the stages.
7. Solves Teamwork Problems and Conflicts
The team has agreed upon procedures for diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving teamwork problems and conflicts. The team does not
support member personality conflicts and clashes nor do team members pick sides in a disagreement. Rather, members work towards the mutual resolution of problems and disagreements.
8. Practices Participative Leadership
Participative leadership is practiced in
leading meetings, assigning tasks,
recording decisions and commitments, assessing progress, holding team members accountable, and providing direction for the team. This means that every participant on the team
must actively contribute to leading the team to successful outcomes and contributions.
9. Makes High Quality Decisions
Members of the team
make high quality decisions together and have
the support and commitment of the group to carry out the decisions made. They also gain the support and commitment of the people they report to in order to accomplish and communicate the team's progress and success.
They gain the support and commitment from senior leadership by demonstrating all of these ten teamwork necessities each and every day. The team lives high quality interaction that is observable and an example for all other teams to emulate.
If a team can get these ten factors right, success and a rewarding sense of teamwork will follow. It's not always the task at hand that challenges teams in their progress, it's the relationships and the little things that happen day-to-day. If team members can rise above the trench, they can achieve greatness.
10. YOU
and the 5 teams you need
Now, you know the secret
success ingredients for your teams. Why not make them happen?
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