You have your baggage that you bring to and from work everyday, so do I, so does Cathy in accounting and Anthony in Production. When you work on a team the need to toss your baggage off the flight is necessary! While still respecting people and yourself as a complex mess of thoughts and feelings. Working to plan & identify solutions to make your work better is what makes Teams Work. Contact Mike to Make your team and leaders better. Resulting with increased productivity and people who love the work they do.

Teams are made of people, NOT the other way around, and Great Teams are able to increase their leverage of work. An amazing thing happens psychologically when we are on a work team that clicks, that is connected, that flows. To people outside the team work looks easy. All of this Team Process and Skills takes work and that one asshole who joins the team can throw everything off.

Finding solutions and acknowledging problems then planning steps to solve the problems are what great people on teams do. Which brings us to this weeks inquiry.

Team Building Assessment Questions;

Questions I ask the people on the team prior to meeting with them. OR sometimes I ask the question in a team meeting – I do what I want because I lead the show. You do what you want because, well I am not the boss of you.

As a Work Team

Below are question about the TEAM. In the following responses think your functional work team.

The Goal for the project was clearly defined and understood by myself and the others on the team? Goal defined as “what-by-when” meaning what was going to be completed and by when – a time deadline.

• Never 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Always
• What would 1 point higher on the same scale look like (i.e what would be happening instead, more of, how would your work be better)? The Goal for the project was clearly defined and understood by myself and others on the team?

The team offers and solicits feedback; allowing the team to learn from where they may have gotten things right and wrong.

• Never 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Always
• What would 1 step higher on the same scale look like (i.e what would be happening instead, how would your work be better)? The team offers and solicits feedback; allowing the team to learn from where they may have gotten things right and wrong.

Is tolerant of ideas and new ways of doing things. The team appreciates that we are all different and that there is no “one right way”.

• Never 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Always
• What would 1 point higher on the same scale look like (i.e what would be happening instead, how would your work be better)? Is tolerant of ideas and new ways of doing things. The team appreciates that we are all different and that there is no “one right way”.

The team develops and utilizes trust. Trust being defined as – The ability to rely upon others to be truthful and to do as they say, and to follow established rules, procedures and custom and practice.

• Never 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Always
• What would 1 point higher on the same scale look like (i.e what would be happening instead, how would your work be better)? The team develops and utilizes trust. Trust being defined as – The ability to rely upon others to be truthful and to do as they say, and to follow established rules, procedures and custom and practice.

These questions will supply you with an idea of how to improve the team, and once the team is “one step higher on the same scale” you can identify what brought you there.

These steps will improve production and speed of work completion, BUT you have to ask and take action to move the team into action.

Contact Mike to make your team and leaders better.

 

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