A Winning Team

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A Winning Team?

• Marie McHugh/Paula OKane

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Some Questions

• Do you work well as a team?
• Why?
• What is it that makes your collection of people
  work well together?

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High Performance Teams

• Achieve through
• Agreed purpose and values
• Individual commitment to the goals and vision
• Inner self motivation
• Relationships of synergy

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Things to Ensure

• Team members must
• Have relevant ability and experience
• Know what is required from them
• Have sufficient resources available
• Know that superior performance is rewarded
• Know that inferior performance is punished

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Characteristics of Effective Teams

• Informal relaxed atmosphere
• Much discussion, everyone participates
• Tasks are well understood and accepted
• Members listen to each other
• Free expression of ideas
• Frequent disagreement
• Frank criticism, little personal attack
• Decisions by consensus
• Leader doesnt dominate

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Team Leaders

• Should
• B balance the team
• E exploit diversity
• S ensure that everyone knows and
  shares the goal
• T trust the team