team performance webinar - what do your team really think?

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Today’s moderator

Andrew Bailey

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Today’s guest speaker

Liz Bennett

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Team performance -what do you think?

Question: Think about the best team you’ve worked in.

What were the characteristics that made it great?

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Agenda and Objectives

• Share data about what people really think about the teams they are part of

• What that means for us

• What we can do about it

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A group of people who

Share a sense of urgency and direction.

Have a common meaningful purpose.

Set specific performance goals

Are equally responsible and accountable

Spend time together ( real and virtual)

Give feedback, Recognition and Reward

Katzenbach and Smith “The wisdom of teams”

What is a “team”?

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What makes a “good” team? -

The characteristics of high team performance

Roles

Purpose and objectives

Trust

Communication and relationships

Adaptability

Team Profile

Leadership

Processes

Productivity

Morale

Empowerment

TASK

TEAM INDIVIDUAL

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POLL – which 2 of these indicators do you think come

out as the lowest?

Roles

Purpose and objectives

Trust

Communication and relationships

Adaptability

Team Profile

Leadership

Processes

Productivity

Morale

Empowerment

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The IMechE Team Performance Diagnostic

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What does the data tell us?

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What does the data tell us?

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Processes, Productivity, Profile

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In your experience what have you seen are the obstacles in the way of doing a good job?

Put your thoughts into the chat box

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Insights – Involvement –Ideas – Implementation –Improvements

So what? Why is this important to me/to us?

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Insights – Involvement –Ideas – Implementation –Improvements

Engagement

So what? Why is this important to me/to us?

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Insights – Involvement –Ideas – Implementation –Improvements

Engagement

“Intangible” become measurable

So what? Why is this important to me/to us?

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Insights – Involvement –Ideas – Implementation –Improvements

Engagement

“Intangible” become measurable

So what? Why is this important to me/to us?

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Put this on your team agenda

Focus on processes and productivity

“Performance is both the cause and effect of teams” Katzenbach and Smith “The wisdom of teams”

What can we do about it?

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Summary

• A team is a team when the right ingredients come together

• IMechE has identified, and measured, 11 broad indicators (“ingredients”)

• To date, it is the dimensions of “process” and “productivity” that score the lowest

• People come to work because they want to do a good job

• Most people say that their teams could achieve more

• The research continues – what do your team really think?

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Thank you!

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Any questions?