Have you ever worked on a great team? What made it a great team? This Management 3.0 Module is all about teams. It looks into how a team can improve, how trust between team members can be built, and what makes teams successful.
Is there a silver bullet to helping any team become successful? Probably not. However, you as a manager, the team leader, the one who cares, can set up the conditions to increase success. As a team leader and manager, you are the gardener: If you prepare the soil well before you plant the trees, the rate of success will increase.
What will you learn?
- The growth of teams in organizations and why teams are becoming the building blocks of modern organizations.
- The definition of a team: Consider them part of the team, need each other, common goals, together responsible.
- What is the optimal size for a work team.
- The definition of team diversity and how it can support a team.
- The pros and cons of diversity in a team, and how to support diversity. (It builds a bridge to our Diversity module Individuals & Interactions, integrating the Diversity Index.)
- The six key components for successful teams and practices and tools to support these
6 pillars of successful teams
- Have conflicts
- Clarity in the team
- Have trust in each other
- Understand the impact
- Be Reliable to each other
- Care about results
- Understand the five team decision models: one, majority, some, all and dice.
- Understand how a manager or leaders can support a team in becoming self-organizing by using the Team Decision Matrix and Team Decision Cards.
What will we discuss in this module?
- What is in your experience the definition of a great team and did you experience this yourself?
- How do you measure the performance of a team and how does this relate to individual performance?
- How much self-organization and self-steering is possible for a team within an organization, what is needed for 100%?