Creating and Sustaining High Performance Teams

Building teams is easy to talk about and difficult to accomplish.  But there is a process to accelerate the learning curve for building team skills and collaboration. 

Teams do not just happen naturally. Teams are, in the truest sense, a volunteer organization. You can’t force someone to cooperate – you can’t mandate teamwork. A high level of cooperation is a product of choice. 

One step to predictable and enhanced team performance is understanding the common characteristics of teams that achieve exceptional results. Characteristics of an HP team:

• A common purpose/shared mission,
  
• Autonomy and authority,
  
• Interdependence and facilitative leadership,
  
• Clear Roles with broadly-defined jobs,
  
• Meaningful participation in decisions,
  
• Effective relationships.
  

Cohesive teams build trust, eliminate politics, and increase efficiency by:

• Knowing one another’s unique strengths and weaknesses,
  
• Openly engaging in constructive conflict and dialogue,
  
• Holding one another accountable for behaviors and actions,
  
• Committing to group decisions and following through on them.
  

One of the best models we’ve seen for creating HP teams is from a book called “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni.

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