Building A High Performance Team

" A Lack of Simplicity, Clarity, And Consistency
Compromises Performance And Teams"

 

One of the largest challenges is to build teams that work and grow together consistently. The simplification of this process of building teams takes practice but yields benefits that far outstrip the efforts spent.

The points below have been left in point form due to the sheer volume of information, one of our team will be pleased to assist you with them.

Creating A Simplified Approach

• Simplify, the process,
• Clarify, the communication,
• Communicate, the required information,
• Consistency, stay on the consistent track with consistent expectations

Defining Management Team Membership

• How many team members,
  • Too many is cumbersome,
  • Too little is ineffective,
• Representation of each area,
  • Sometimes different levels of authority,
• Outside advisers ?
  • Very useful in Entrepreneurial Teams,
  • Advisory board possible,
• Current leader and possible future leaders ?
• What authority do management team members have

Developing A Team Code Of Conduct

• How will the team treat each other?
  • Respect,
  • Communication,
  • Lines of authority,
• Disagreement mechanism,
• Honouring of deadlines,
• Pro active vs reactive communication,
• Performance measurement and feedback

Defining Delivery Team Roles

• Assigning responsibilties,
• Clear and understood processes and workflows,
• Escalation criteria on exceptions,
• Escalation points on exceptions

Eliminating Inherent Failure

• Eliminating inherent team structure failures,
• Not allowing team fractures to grow into something of harm

Eliminating The Management Team Gap (An Inherent Failure)

With the flattening of many corporate and entrepreneurial team structures the gap between the executive/ entrepreneurial team direction and the front line management and delivery team has widened. The middle management leve lskill set that ideally translated the direction to implementable process for the team has been compromised and not replaced in many organizations. Constant improvement closes this gap and assists with development, implementation and skill set transfer to the existing team for the continued growth and success of your firm

Developing Management Communication Structures

• Upward and downward communication,
• Consistency,
  • Management meetings,
    • Agendas,
    • Reports,
    • Items carried forward,
    • New business,
  • Stategy progress meetings,
  • Communication to all team members, not just informal lines
• Frequency,
  • Consistent frequency altered by increased decreased need
• Tone
  • No fear of reprisal ,
  • Respect for all members - see code of conduct
• Mediums vs item to be communicated,
• Upward communication,
  • Suggestions,
  • Observations,
  • Creating a desire to communicate upward,
  • 500 eyes are better than 2

Understanding Operational Platforms

• Management team understanding of operational platform components,
• Management ability to communicate and mentor team on platforms

Putting Strategy Into Action

• Taking the strategy into implementable tasks ,
• Reality check by all team members of strategy and tasks,
• Tasks and goals clear and concise,
• Understanding of interdependencies,
• Appropriate resources available

Developing Task Management Systems

• Clear tracking methodology,
• All parties participating

For more on Managing Goals & Tasks...click here

Effective Monitoring and Reporting

• Measuring things that matter,
• Measuring things that are resonable

For more on Measuring Success...click here

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