Building High Performance Teams

Can you build good-functioning teams in a fast paced, dog-eat-dog world? 

Yes! Excellent leaders are able to build peak performing teams with members who superbly support one another. Such teams are able to more quickly and easily achieve personal, team, and organizational goals. Managers who build such teams stand out and their value to the organization is not forgotten.

Research has proven that a peak performing team that is mature and effective needs to be painstakingly built. Problems and possibilities need to be worked through, relationships deepened, and roles and functions clarified. When successful teams are studied, they are found to have achieved the common characteristics of:

1. Shared leadership 
2. Suitable membership 
3. Commitment to the team 
4. A constructive climate 
5. Concern for performance achievement 
6. A clear role in the organization 
7. Effective work methods 
8. Well organized team procedures 
9. Critique without rancor 
10. Well developed individual skills 
11. Creative strength 
12. Positive inter group relations

• Chart the personal styles and strengths of each team member using this information to most effectively balance the team and utilize individual talent and natural motivation. 
• Determine your team's effectiveness related to eight research-based areas. 
• Use the ProActive Performance Feedback System to determine the relative alignment of your organization's operating values with your team's operating values. 
• Reach genuine consensus on goals to strengthen member and team performance to more effectively, quickly, and easily carry out the critical tasks and functions assigned to your team. 
• Use the time-efficient ProActive Problem Solving process to identify your team's needs and to resolve and prevent problems.
• Use the ProActive Communication process for negotiating team goals. 

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