Ingredients for Successful Teamwork

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Ingredients for Successful Teamwork

• Clear and elevating goal
• Results-driven structure
• Competent team members
• Unified commitment
• Collaborative climate
• Standards of excellence
• Support and recognition
• Principled Leadership

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Clear and Elevating Goal

• Specific performance outcomes
• Challenging
• Impact Driven (Makes a difference)
• Detractors Politics and Personal Agenda

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Results-driven Structure

• Clear Role and Accountabilities
• Effective Communication System
• Monitoring Individual Performance and Providing
  Feedback
• Criteria-based Decision-making

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Competent Team Members

• Technical Competencies--knowledge, skills,
  abilities associated with doing the task
  (accounting, planning)
• Personal Competencies--qualities, abilities, and
  skills needed to identify, address, and resolve
  issues (interpersonal skills, team orientation,
  etc....)

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Unified Commitment

• Involvement and Ownership
• (Walt Disney and Saturn)
• Balance between Individuality and Team

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Collaborative Climate

• Honesty--Integrity and No lies
• Openness--Willingness to share and receptive to
  new and different ideas
• Consistency--Predictable behaviors and responses
• Respect--Treating people with dignity and
  fairness
• Detractor Lack or Diminishing Trust

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Standards of Excellence

• Need a set of challenging standard
• Performance meeting or exceeding that standard
• Pressure for continuous improvement
• Hard Work

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Support and Recognition

• Philosophical Support
• Recognition of Merit
• Tangible Rewards

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Principled Leadership

• Adherence to and enactment of a set of values
  that guide their behavior
• That leads to
• creating vision, aligning people, empowering
  people and provide support and structure in the
  organization

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Principle Leadership

• Leads to
• Providing Consistent Messages
• Suppressing and Controlling Ones Ego
• Where do we want to be five years from now?