High performing teams have a number of key characteristics that differentiate them from average and poor performing teams.
The corner stone of high performance are shared mental models-having a common understanding of the team goals and outcomes, team roles and responsibilities, and team behavioural and performance expectations.
Your culture shapes your performance. It is important for you to understand “how we do things around here” and its link to your current performance and results. From there you can focus on where you want to be and what you need to do to get there.
Our approach is to work with you to define your current and desired culture. We can work with leaders and teams to drive your desired culture. This is achieved through:
For maximum impact we need to focus on both leader development and leadership development. We need to develop individual leaders by increasing their capacity to lead through the acquisition of skills, self-awareness and motivation. We also need to build the collective capacity of the organisation – how leaders and followers together increase the shared leadership capacity of the group.
Maximising impact means using a range of techniques such as:
Teams behave in a context highlighting the importance of focusing not just on “how the team is going about its work” but also the systems surrounding the team.
When working with teams we focus on what high performance looks like for them and how they intend to get there. We work with the leaders and teams to reflect on what they bring as individuals to the team as well as what they bring as a unit to the performance. It is important to work on:
© Performance Science HPO 2021
