Secrets of High Performing Teams

 

Every leader and manager wants to lead high-performing teams. Even though agile produces efficient and quality teams but the teams which perform highly and repeatedly are always the focuses of discussion and are in the spotlight while providing a good example. Why are they valued so much?

The highly performing agile teams produce high-quality exceptional results repeatedly irrespective of the challenges they face. They almost every time exceed the expectation of customers and management of the organization.

The highly performing agile team is a group of highly skilled and aligned to a common goal, a cross-functional team that is committed to vision and value and works towards common objectives. These teams are innovative in their problem solving and also consist of a high level of collaboration and communication to provide superior results consistently.

What makes these high-performing teams different from other teams?

Their characteristics and building up make this difference high performing team from others.

Characteristics of High Performing Team:-

Mutual Respect

Respect for each team member whether senior or junior is an important characteristic of high-performing teams. They respect the skills others possess and their working methods, this helps build strong bonds resulting in capacity building and productivity improvement.

Effective Practices

To have a high-performing, effective and efficient team proper planning and deployment of resources are required. Effective work practices and following the rules create high performing agile team. Ineffective work rules may hinder the creativity, innovation, and risk-taking attitudes of team members which cause a problem in organizing and evaluating information.

Open and Clear Communication

There is always open communication among team members as well as between leaders and their team providing everyone an opportunity to state their ideas, issues, or feedback giving a wide prospect of work.

Shared Vision and Objectives

High-performing agile teams work together towards a common goal and vision, providing the best business results and solutions as an output. High-performing teamwork is a single spirit so their objectives are aligned similarly.

High Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is an important aspect of a high-performing team. As social interaction cause emotions to flare, being emotionally intelligent high performing agile team members can control their emotions and maintain a healthy relationship. This leads team members to respect, and motivate each other and helps in improving personal and team growth.

Building Up of High Performing Teams

How many high-performing teams should be built is explained in the below points.

Stable Team

The right composition of team structure is the main foundation of a high-performing team. The not too small or too large team is ideal to have as too small will lack diversity and too large will reduce effectiveness. Approximately 8-10 numbers are the best structure. Other than team size, team member skill, and attitude also plays an important role in creating a stable and high-performing team.

Value Aligned Team Dynamics

When team members shared a common value and vision they interact freely and share a bond. This aligned value brings the best outcomes to the team making them high performing. It is wise for leaders to make the team focus more on a common vision through constant communication with the team.

An Environment of Open Communication

To improve the effectiveness of the team leaders need to encourage an open communication environment in the team. Most times, a lack of psychological safety makes team members hold back from voicing their thoughts and opinion in meetings. Leaders to improve the effectiveness of teams must create an open communication environment and team members' style of working to motivate them. This will motivate team member, encourage innovation, and takes new ideas to implementation.

Importance of Learning

Fostering continuous learning in a team will always keep the team improving and reduce the gap with the latest updates of a team. Technology today is continuously changing and makes learning a priority. So constant learning mindset and chances from leaders will make team members always updated with their skills making team highly performing and reducing the organization's stress of upgrading.

Set Achievable Goals

Setting achievable and measurable goals will help in creating a high-performing agile team. With a set of common and achievable goals team found themselves energized, more creative, and motivated to complete the task, helping the team to accomplish more in less time. Going with unrealistic goals will disturb the strategy and also create frustration within the team. Always leaders must set realistic and achievable goals for the team taking one step at a time to make team high performing.

With the above tips for building the team and management can achieve a high-performing agile team and also build the important characteristics high performing team should possess.

The success of an organization in today’s time is not depending on its leaders or management but also involves the contribution of the team and team members. Organizations need to build high-performing teams that can respond quickly to challenges and encircle constantly changing expectations giving out the best result possible.

About Advance Agility

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