Building High Performance Teams (Part 3)

In my blog posts at the end of June, I stated that when running sessions on team building, as well as doing a number of exercises, I ask four questions that help create a strong team environment. In Building High Performance Teams Part 1 and 2, I explored the first two questions:

Step 1: What sort of team would you like to work in?

Step 2: What do you have to do in order to make this happen?

These two questions help people identify the kind of team that they want to work in and help them to understand that they need to treat people the way they wanted to be treated.

Step 3 is to ask them ‘Are you committed to treat people the way you want to be treated?’ This is an important question, as it is necessary to get people to ‘buy in’; for employees to state their commitment to treating others the way they want to be treated. This is crucial in order for them to agree to the next step, which is:

Step 4: Are you open to being challenged if someone believes that you are not honouring your commitment? In order to create a strong team environment, there needs to be:

·      A willingness to communicate

·      An openness to being challenged

·      A willingness to admit mistakes

Simon  Pimenta