What is a High Performing Team?

A high performing team’s resources can come from sources using paradigm shifts. The right ingredients include Right tools and skills for High Performing Teams. Good planning includes action strategies for high performing teams.

Respect the individual human beings who team with you as resources.
Specialists are good ingredients in any high performing teams pursuits. Respect the individual human beings who team with you as resources be it permanent or on contract.
Environment is an important ingredient in High Performing Teams. Be sensitive to mission, tasks and impacts.

A high performing team is an outcome when individual human beings, have respectful and meaningful conversations with each other about aiming for beyond ordinary results. As a group, they are solutions oriented. The individuals have both humility and magnanimity. Their quest is to constantly innovate, improve and achieve, as drivers to fulfillment. A high performing teams operation and execution of mission is with head and heart.

QuestUnique team development programmes create:

Synergistic driven themes for common goals
Programmes have key business drivers at the core
Highly confident, motivated and empowered teams who have the “can do and will do” attitude
Individual self-understanding is shared for team leverage
Improved understanding of each other’s aspirations, roles, skills and talents
paving for enhanced communication which leads to more positive and productive team relationships
Individual and group mindsets to create and implement successful change processes;
continuous improvement behaviours to doing things better
Growth in interpersonal and emotional intelligence competence within the team which minimizes conflict;
coaching style of engagement between colleagues
Personal and team advancement through fulfillment and retention of key skills and talent.
Great teams self-select and grow each other

Framework

Business Context
Vision, Values, Mission, Strategic Initiatives, Business Goals.
Individual Inventories
Five Key Anchors / Your True North.
Individual debriefs.
Group Workshop
- Day 1: Collaborating with each other as individuals and professionals
  Understanding each other and sharing
  Using coaching as a style of leadership and communication
  Buddying and mentoring
- Day 2: Integrating the you, team and business
  Vision
  Values
  Mission (SWOTs)
  Strategic Initiatives
  Business goals (Critical Success Factors)
  Individual action plans (Accountabilities and responsibilities & Critical Success Factors)
Monthly Follow Ups
Audit Performance Improvement, Review, Benchmark, Re-set

For further reading I also recommend this scholarly article “The Discipline of Teams” by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith.

What is a high performing team?