What are the eight characteristics of high performing teams? How can leaders impact on these eight areas? This session looks at some practical and easy to implement tools for team leaders to improve the performance of their team.

1. Dr Tim Baker
tim@winnersatwork.com.au
www.winnersatwork.com.au
Characteristics of High
Performing Teams

2. Unit 1—Characteristics of
High Performing Teams
Unit 2—The Four Stages of
Team Development
Unit 3—Tools for Leading
Teams
Unit 4—The Roles People Play
in Teams
Unit 5—Managing Team
Conflict and Negotiations
Unit 6—Developing Team
Culture

3. What are the eight
characteristics of
HPTs?
Tools for creating
HPTs.
Examples of HPTs

4. What are some examples of high performing teams on the world of sport?

5. Characteristics of high performing teams

6. Build trust

8. Share leadership

10. Be agile

11. Three
choices …
Decisions that follow a process
Decisions that can either
follow a process or where
initiative can be displayed
Decisions where initiative is
expected

12. Create purpose

13. 1. Do I know my team’s purpose?
2. Have I communicated this purpose to my team?
3. Do my team understand the purpose?
4. Do my team members accept the purpose?
5. Are my team members committed to the purpose?
6. Do all team members know how their work is tracking against the team’s purpose?
7. Am I supporting my team members to achieve purpose?
Seven Questions to consider to create purpose

14. Manage
stakeholders

16. Improve systems

17. 8 Dimensions
of Innovation
& Continuous
Improvement
quality
Improving
time
Reducing
costs
Reducing
output
Increasing
safety
Increasing
deadlines
Meeting
interpersonal cooperation
Enhancing
systems and processes
Streamlining

18. Utilize diversity

20. Learn
continuously

21. After Action Review (AAR)
 What did you do well?
 What was not done well?
 What will you do differently next time?
“The Army's After Action Review (AAR) is arguably one of the most successful
organizational learning methods yet devised. Yet, most every corporate
effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed
because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a
sterile technique.” (Senge, 1999)
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22. Your homework
Take one characteristic
from today that sparked
an interest & take some
action.

23. Unit 1—Characteristics of
High Performing Teams
Unit 2—The Four Stages of
Team Development
Unit 3—Tools for Leading
Teams
Unit 4—The Roles People Play
in Teams
Unit 5—Managing Team
Conflict and Negotiations
Unit 6—Developing Team
Culture