team and leadership w-objectives-neld

8/7/2019 team and leadership w-objectives-neld

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Developing Highly

Effective Teams

Strategies for team building


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NELD Team & Leadership

Nathan Crane

BeckyN

esbitt Daniel Perkins

Kim Reaman

Matt Shane Teresa Witkoske


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Objectives

Participants will gain an awareness of:

the differences between real teams and single-leader

units factors which facilitate team performance

factors which inhibit team performance.

Participants will be introduced to an instrument

used to assess team development. Participants will reflect on their own philosophy of

team development as it applies to leadership.


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Information contained in this presentationwas pulled from a workshop entitled High-Performing Self-Directed Teams Some

Concepts and Ideas presented by Dr. RayVlasin and Dr. Arlen Leholm forOhio State

University Extension on August 28, 2006.

Based on their book

Increasing the Odds for High

Performance Teams


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Real Teams

A real team is a smallnumber of people with

complementary skills whoare equally committed to acommon purpose, goals

and working approach, forwhich they hold

themselves mutuallyaccountable.


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Single-Leader Unit

The single-leader unitis based on the classicmanagerial approach where one person is in charge,makes the key decisions, assigns individual tasks and

delegates responsibility. The single-leader isaccountable and chooses when and how to modifyworking approaches.

If the sum of the individual contributions to a task can

best meet the performance challenge, then a single-leader working group will make the most sense andshould be used.


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Wisdom from the authors.

Clarity of purpose is theglue that keeps an

effective team functioning.


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The Five Dysfunctions of Teams

Absence of Trust

Fear of Conflict

Lack of Commitment

Avoidance ofAccountability

Inattention to Results


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When to use a Real Team versus

a Single-Leader Unit

Issue area is broad and

complex Involves joint products /

services for bestoutcomes

Need several years tobenefit from creativityand innovations

Issue area is specific and

defined Individual contributions

can be combined toachieve efficient outcomes

Issue / task is short-livedor periodic in nature

Real Team SLU


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Requires substantial

active involvement ofcustomers

Requires both mutual(team) and individualaccountability

When synergy of teammembers and citizenswill grow in performanceover time

Requires less involvement

and/or short-terminvolvement of customers

Can be achieved withindividual accountability

When synergy of groupmembers and citizens isnot necessary

Real Team SLU


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Involves varied client needs,variety of product or serviceresponses, budget andresource entrepreneurship

Flourishes in organizationalcontext of shared leadershipand empowerment

Leadership is treated as afunction and team membersrotate leadership based onneed

When client is specific, product

or service responses arespecific, budgets and resourcesare assigned

Can accommodate a commandand control organizationalenvironment

Can be used for short termprojects or committee workinside a real team

Real Team SLU


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Some Key Lessons Learned

Ignoring team basics

Treating organizationalsupport on an ad hoc basis

Practicing command andcontrol, top-downleadership andaccountability

Understanding of teambasics for real teams andtheir operation

Understandingorganizational basics and

empowerment Commitment to and practice

of shared leadership andmutual accountability

Inhibiting Team

Performance

Facilitating Team

Performance


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Some Key Lessons Learned

Viewing customers as

only recipients of

products / services

Rewards focused on

individual performance

Direct and continuous

involvement of

customers

Rewards and recognition

of team performance

Inhibiting Team

Performance

Facilitating Team

Performance


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Wisdom from the authors.the single-most important

insight is to approach each team

and its organizational context with

a truly open mind, recognizing

that it is a special case ofcomplex conditions and

relationships.

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