Team success depends on interactions between individuals that are positive and builds towards great work relationships. This presentation explores ways to make these people dynamics flourish
3. A Few Questions
1. Do you currently or have you worked with challenging
people?
2. Thinking of the best team you ever worked on, was
this team at your current organization or a previous
one?
3. Would you say your current team is truly a team or a
collection of individuals?
4. The Problem
12% Direct Cost
Most important factors
for team success
#1 - Relationships
#2 - Communication
Teams are failing…
13. Storming
Outcomes:
1. Builds empathy & understanding (it’s not personal)
2. Empowers the team to leverage each other
3. Shifts identity away from individual to team
14. • Reinforce the things that we learned
• Identify underlying issues and force these to the surface
• Improve performance over the long-term, not just today
Norming
Go from this…. To this…..
15. Your Experience
Discussion:
1. What are ways you have built team cohesion?
2. How do you stay in touch with the unique needs of
your people?
3. Have you gotten involved to resolve conflicts or do
you coach your people on working through those
issues?
Somehow we have de-emphasized the people that are at the heart of that (focus on tasks, budgets, timelines and we lose sight that there are complex beings on the other end of those numbers)
Of course people matter, but how do we put these people together in a way that contributes our best work to the organization?