Growing High Team Performance to Produce Results

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Growing High Team Performance to Produce Results

• By Cindy Andruss
• March 13, 2006

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Team Performance Today is All a Buzz About
Productivity
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Project Leaders Must Unearth Team Members Hidden
Beliefs
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Conflicting Beliefs Can Plant Risks
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Team leaders Can Weed Out Conflicts with a Hardy
Plan
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Follow a Three-Step Process to Yield High Team
Performance
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Culture Harvests Beliefs that Enable High
Performance
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• Clear and public accountability 100 agree
• Trusted competency 100 agree
• Give and take 100 agree
• Outcome optimism 100 agree
• Total transparency 80 agree
• Work is its own reward 80 agree
• Shared glory 60 agree
• Meaningful mission value 50 agree
• Simply the best 40 agree

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• Watch our backs 0 agree

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Use the HPT Questionnaire to Fertilize a
Promising Outcome
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Predict Potential Project Issues Resolve
Conflicts
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Facilitate a Gentle Group Discussion to Address
Thorny Issues
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Will Your Teams Beliefs Threaten a Budding
Performance?
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Poor Communication and Dissimilar Beliefs Sow
Seeds of Doubt
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Cultivating High Performance and Maximum Results
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Uncovering Team Beliefs So Everythings Coming
Up Roses
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Credits

• Thompson, Ken. Founder of www.bioteams.com, a
  research blog dedicated to how organizational
  teams can learn from natures best teams.
• Published Team Beliefs research
  http//www.bioteams.com/2006/02/22/new_research_on
  .htmlmore
• Atkinson, Cliff, Beyond Bullet Points,
  www.sociablemedia.com
• Photos from Stock.XCHNG, www.sxc.hu