LinkedIn: Building Your Team

2023-02-22 61 阅读2分钟

1. How Leaders Prepare for Team Building

Understanding your leadership style
- How you show up to your team matters
- Strengthen Your leadership skills
  - Be honest with your team
  - Show who you really are
  - Use humor appropriately
  - Focus on your communication skills
Assessing your leadership readiness
- Assess Your Self-Awareness
  1. Use a peronality assessment tool
    - DiSC
    - Myers-Biggs Type Indicator
    - StrengthsFinder
  2. Conduct a SWOT analysis
    - S: Strengths
    - W: Weakness
    - O: Opportunities
    - T: Threats

2. Stages of Team Development

Forming stage of team development
- Clarify team purpose
- Set ground rules
- Team Building Exercise
  - Three common
  - One Unique
- Key leadership skills
  - Listen actively
  - Accept differences
  - Ask open-ended questions
  - Be transparent and inclusive
Storming stage of team development
- Storming stage warning signs
  - Blaming others
  - Communicating poorly
  - Accusing others of "not doing their jobs"
- Key leadership skills
  - Adjust goal-setting
  - Tweak role responsibilities
  - Modify task completion
- Active Communication
  - Be direct and decisive
  - Focus on the content
  - Paraphrase
  - Ensure common understanding
- Disruption on a team can be positive
Norming stage of team development
- Norming Characteristics
  - Open communication
  - Constructive feedback
  - Inside jokes
- Solidify the gains
  1. Strengthen relationships among team members.
  2. Keep communication open
  3. Motivate team members
  4. Offer positive feedback
Performing stage of team development
- Performing Characteristics
  - Team harmony
  - High productivity
  - Conflict management
  - Adaptablity
  - Individual and group development
- Teams are objective and share constructive feedback
- Review and Reflect
  - What discovery did you have about yourself?
  - What surprised you about the process?

3. Types of Teams

Understanding natural work teams and self-directed teams
- Natural Teams
  - Focus on a common, ongoing product, process or service
- What Natural teams need
  - Open communication
  - Personal development
  - Rewards and recognition
  - Diverse opinions
- self-directed teams require limited or no supervision.
Understanding cross-functional teams
- Cross-Functional Teams
  - When group members have a variety of experience and backgrounds working toward a common goal.
- Advantages
  - Multiple perspectives
  - Range of skills
- Focus on communication and conflict management
- Make information easily understood by all team members
- Take part in team-building avtivities like
  - Gibberish communicator
- Address areas of conflict early on
Understanding virtual teams
- Virtual teams
  - Team member with different locations, cultures, and languages
- Tips for virtual teams
  1. Have a face-to-face meeting early if possible.
  2. Use project management software or online groups
    - Basecamp
    - Asana
    - Blog
  3. Discuss how community is formed in online games.
  4. Hold meetings to reward great work and strengthen relationships

4. Key Elements for a Team

Establishing team mission and goals
- Mission statement
  - What is the team going to do?
  - How is it going to do it?
- Create a Mission Statement
  - Encourage your team to collaborate on it
  - Ask: What is our purpose?
  - Use plain language
- Refer to your mission statement often
Evaluating team performance
- Adopt an approach of continuous team improvement
- Plus/Delta Assessment Technique
  - Plus: What worked?
  - Delta: What can be improved?
- Evaluating Team Performance
  - Are meetings productive?
  - Are targets met?
  - Is the team inclusive and collaborative?
- Evaluating Individual Performance
  - Is the member cooperative?
  - Does the member contribute ideas?
  - Is the member reliable and efficient?
- Individual Evaluation System
  - Identify objective, measurable goals
  - Develop a consistent form.
  - Create an ongoing schedule.
  - Get feedback training

5. Managing Team Meetings

Tips for successful team meetings
- Running Effective Meetings
  - Start with clear objectives
    - Smart
    - Measureable
    - Achievable
    - Relevant
    - Time-bound
  - Ask if a meeting is necessary
  - Craft an agenda
    - Seek your team's input
    - Estimate time for each agenda item
    - Consider how attendees can prepare in advance
    - Assign a person to each agenda item
  - Addressing Agenda Items
    - What is the action step?
    - Who is responsible?
    - When will it be completed?
Engagement roles for team members
- Roles for Team members
  - Meeting facilitator
    - Stay objective
    - Focus on outcomes
    - Keep the meeting flowing
    - Handle disruptions
  - Timekeeper
  - Scribe
    - Take notes and send them after the meeting
  - Energy manager
Creating a team action plan
1. Set your team's goals
2. Create objectives for each goal
3. List the tasks to accomplish each objective
How to reach consensus on a team
- Decision-Making process
  - Address conflict
  - Seek wide participation
  - Debate openly
  - Find agreement
- Consensus
  - Reaching an agreement that is in the best interest of the team
- Consensus and Successful teams
  - Inclusive
  - Collaborative
  - Cooperative