High-performance teams have certain key characteristics that allow them to successfully overcome obstacles and challenges, including a positive team environment, collaborative problem-solving, and strong leadership. These characteristics can be broken down into the individual strengths of team members, how well the members work together, and the leadership that ties it all together. Specifically, high-performance teams foster personal ownership among members, trust and respect through a positive environment, use an accepted problem-solving process and decision-making techniques, employ conflict-resolution skills, and continuously learn.

1. High Performance Teams
Christos K. Agrogiannos

2. High Performance Teams
• High-performance teams are more than
merely highly productive. A team composed of
experienced, capable people can be very
productive until those people hit an obstacle
or are confronted with an unexpected
challenge. This is the point at which the team
either shows its strength or reveals its
limitations. Teams that successfully persevere
tend to have certain characteristics:
• A positive team environment
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Leadership
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3. High Performance Teams
• We can break the components of a strong
project team into three areas:
• A strong team requires each of the individual
components
• The strength of the team in the way the pieces
work together
• Weakness in one component cannot be
compensated for by strength in another
component
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4. High Performance Teams
and Positive Environment
• A positive environment promotes trust and
respect among team members and increases
performance through more productive work
habits.
• Additionally a positive environment is not
merely an abstract feeling; it is a set of
observable skills that a project manager can
instill. Further, this positive environment
produces two important characteristics of the
high-performing team:
1. Personal ownership of the team goal.
2. Strong interpersonal relationships based
on trust and respect.
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5. High Performance Teams
and Problem Solving Skills
• Efficient and effective teams can solve a series of
problems and that they need to learn to work together to
solve those problems. Build this collaborative capability
by focusing on four team abilities:
• Problem-solving skills tied to an accepted problem-solving
process.
• Understanding and applying multiple decision modes.
• Conflict-resolution skills
• Continuous learning.
• Each of these capabilities can be developed by the
team, though not all are simple. Together they
create a truly synergistic result: decisions and
products that are superior because they are
developed by a team with diverse styles and
talents.
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6. High Performance Teams
and Leadership
• The keystone of our high-performance
framework is the leader who ties the team
together. No team will reach its potential
without one or more people consciously
attending to the health of the team. The key
focus of the framework is the abilities that the
team possesses. The actions a leader must
take to nurture and establish these capabilities
include:
• Attending to the health of the team.
• Maintaining the strategic vision.
• Attending to team members.
• Exhibiting and demanding accountability.
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7. High Performance Teams
and EXCELLENCE
• Are you interested to increase
performance of your teams and
make them be more collaborative,
effective and efficient?
• Ask us @ xka@xkagrowth.com and
find out more about our
Team Excellence Curriculum:
• How to build winning teams
• Problem solving and decision making
• Goal setting and accountability
• The Art of Leadership
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