ingredients for successful teamwork

Ingredients for Successful Teamwork

Clear and elevating goalResults-driven structureCompetent team membersUnified commitmentCollaborative climateStandards of excellenceSupport and recognitionPrincipled Leadership

Clear and Elevating Goal

Specific performance outcomesChallengingImpact Driven (Makes a difference)

Detractors: Politics and Personal Agenda

Results-driven Structure

Clear Role and AccountabilitiesEffective Communication SystemMonitoring Individual Performance

and Providing FeedbackCriteria-based Decision-making

Competent Team Members

Technical Competencies--knowledge, skills, abilities associated with doing the task (accounting, planning)

Personal Competencies--qualities, abilities, and skills needed to identify, address, and resolve issues (interpersonal skills, team orientation, etc....)

Unified Commitment

Involvement and Ownership (Walt Disney and Saturn)

Balance between Individuality and Team

Collaborative Climate

Honesty--Integrity and No liesOpenness--Willingness to share and

receptive to new and different ideasConsistency--Predictable behaviors

and responsesRespect--Treating people with

dignity and fairness

Detractor: Lack or Diminishing Trust

Standards of Excellence

Need a set of challenging standard

Performance meeting or exceeding that standard

Pressure for continuous improvement

Hard Work

Support and Recognition

Philosophical Support

Recognition of Merit

Tangible Rewards

Principled Leadership

Adherence to and enactment of a set of values that guide their behavior

That leads to

creating vision, aligning people, empowering people and provide support and structure in the organization

Principle Leadership

Leads to

Providing Consistent Messages

Suppressing and Controlling One’s EgoWhere do we want to be five years

from now?