Thursday, 28 February 2013

The secrets of high performing team


  • Separate content from delivery.
  • Differences among team members are to be desired.
  • Good Communicator



  • Be a little forgiving
  • Good listener
  • Participate in discussion
  • Willing to help each other.
  • Consider task equity over task equality.

Importance of team and teamwork of Team



Teams are formed when individuals with a common taste, preference, liking, and attitude come and work together for a common goal. Team play a very important role in organizations as well as our personal lives.



  • Task are accomplished at a faster pace when it is done by a team rather than an individual.
  • There is always a healthy competition among team members.
  • Team work is also important to improve the relations among the employees.
Team and team work must be encouraged at workplace as it strengthens the bond among the employees and the targets can be met at a faster pace. Workload is shared and individuals feel motivated to perform better than his team members.

High performance teams

The high performance teams have many characteristics which are as below:

  • Clear purposes.
  • Informality.
  • Participation.
  • Shared leadership 
  • Effective working procedures.
  • Flexibility and adaptability.
  • Clear Roles and work assignment.
  • Continuous learning.
  • Empowered.
  • Participation
  • Learning
  • Self Assessment.

Characteristics of Successful team members


Successful teams consist of members who possess definite attitudes and behaviors in order to be successful.



Understand the goal of team:   First and foremost thing is that all team members must understand the goal of project or team They have a clear understanding of the team goals to keep the team from straying from their original objective so that they can achieve goals.




Understand their individual roles, functions and responsibilities: Confusion over each member’s roles and responsibilities will cause the team to stagnate. so there is responsibility that
each and every member should play their roles as well functions properly.




View team performance evaluation as constructive: They appreciate feedback from outside sources because they realize that it may benefit their effort in the future.




Understanding a successful team

Establishing a proficient, passionate and talented team is the key to a successful operation in an organization. To build a team, everyone need to understand how to work hard and take on responsibilities, conflicts, identify resources and motivated. Skills are as follow:

Clear Goal:
Goal has to reflect group as well as community values.

Competent Team Members:

Encourage and inspire wide participation.

Collaborative climate: 
understand the obstacles to collaboration. Moreover, build good relationship with each other.


Characteristics to build a successful team

 There are many characteristics of a successful team which are as follow:

  • Agreement on purpose: A successful team starts with a clearly define measurable objective. Members should understand and completely commit themselves to the goals and objectives of the team. Unsuccessful team lack determination of purpose, plan and specific goals to be achieved. 
  • Conversation: The willingness of all team members to communicate ideas and issues is important to the overall success of business.Team members should approach all conversation with respect, trust and honesty.

  • Use of Good Communication skills: Communication plays a very important role in building up a successful team. All team members should feel comfortable to communicate freely with each other to be able to share. A successful team focuses on listening to all members opinion and facilities the participation of others before concluding a final decision.
  • Sense of responsibility: A good team is composed of members with a sense of responsibility to the team and your business.

Team



A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job or project. Team members

  • Operate with a higher degree of Independence.
  • Share authority and responsibility for self management.
  • Work towards a common goal.
A team become more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy, thus generating performance greater than the sum of performance of its individual members.