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BUILDING TEAM PERFORMANCE
Good teamwork is about relationships, with every team member understanding their role, their contribution to the group, and feeling valued for the part they play in helping the team succeed.
BUILDING TEAM PERFORMANCE enables everyone to gain a unique insight into who they are, who their team members are, and build enhanced team self‑awareness.
It’s by increasing self-awareness across the team that we can drive productivity, reduce conflict, enable better quality decision making, and facilitate greater co‑ordination and collaboration. High team self‑awareness drives high performance.1
Through the Insights Team Effectiveness model, we can identify the most pressing and important issues for the team’s development, diagnose problems, and highlight opportunities to inspire success – and ultimately increase productivity.
In the second part of the workshop, we review the impact of COVID-19 ‘team disruption’ – a defining moment for both the individual and the team.
After the initial adrenaline surge, we are now seeing the ‘true’ people impact of lockdown, and the gradual return to the office.
Not surprisingly, virtual and disrupted teams face more challenges to stay effective – challenges that grow as team members spend more and more time under ‘strained’ conditions, leading to poor performance.2-4
Together with communication, research has shown that trust and cohesion – three of the factors that drive psychological safety – are severely compromised in disrupted teams.3,4
Plus, we’re not just looking at the impact of work, we need to consider the impact of external factors to individual health and wellbeing, as well as the health and wellbeing of the team.
KEY OUTCOMES
- Builds engagement and effective team communication
- Develops a shared commitment and clarity on what the team has to do to achieve its goals
- Enables the team to quickly understand their strengths and challenges
- Creates a positive, non-threatening environment for discussing differences, challenges, and resolving conflict
- Reinforces the message that everyone has a role to play in achieving the team’s objectives
- Evaluates team performance against the characteristic of high performing teams, and the Insights Discovery Team Effectiveness model
- Enables participants to take immediate individual and team action
- Reviews the impact of the global pandemic on the team – and the individual – to create an action plan to promote health and productivity
FORMAT
- A 1-day workshop delivered as 2 x 3.5hr virtual sessions
- Available as a standalone workshop, or as part of a SETA accredited skills programme
For teams who have started their Insights Team Effectiveness journey, our ‘Virtual Connect: Disrupted Teams’ focuses on trust, cohesion, and communication as a response to our unprecedented times.
REFERENCES:
- Dierdorff, E.C., Rubin, R.S. (2015). Research: We’re not very self-aware, especially at work. Harvard Business Review. (hbr.org).
- Ortiz de Guinea, A., Webster, J., Staples, D.S. (2012). A meta-analysis of the consequences of virtualness on team functioning. Information and Management, 49(6).
- Mawson, A. (2020). The science behind managing virtual teams. Working Remote, Forbes.(forbes.com).
- CIPD. (2020). Developing effective virtual teams: Lessons from research. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. (cipd.com)