How to Increase Team Effectiveness

How To Improve Team EffectivenessThere is a palpable magic which happens when employes have fun taking ownership over deliberately improving their contributions to your company. The formula looks like this: #Winning! = Skill Building + Team Buiding and successful businesses consistently work to improve their score.  How does your company rank on this measure?  How can it improve?

Here’s an analogy… Watch how the best coaches create a highly successful youth sports program

Great youth sports programs are built by inspirired coaches who understand what high level youth athletes want; to have fun competing at a high level. Great programs also offer continual opportunities to teach important life lessons and the best coaches know how to motivate each athlete to elevate their game and help each other become a highly effective teammate.

To make this analogy 100% applicable to your company, re-read the above paragraph and find/replace the following words: “youth sports program” with “companies”, “coaches” with “leaders” and “youth athletes/athlete” with “employees/employee.”

This Winning Formula for improving team effectiveness has multiple applications at your company

This broad principle has many applications; too many to cover in a short weekly message.  However, to get you started, below is a simple framework you can apply to accelerate shared learning in your company

  • Step 1 – Create a company culture where employees intentionally share best practices
  • Step 2 – Develop a deliberate process where employees teach/learn from each other
  • Step 3 – Gamify shared learning and systematically supporting each employee

What is the outcome of systematizing the continual improvevment of team effectiveness?

Every company will benefit from their employees knowing how to cover for each other during planned vacations and unplanned emergencies.  Every employee benefits from thriving in a peer teaching/learning environment, when each employee strives to become the best possible teammate while contributing towards strengthening their team (your company.)

Why this matters

If you like to #Win on a consistent basis, improving team effectiveness matters a lot.

Your call to action

If you want to help your son/daughter become a better youth baseball/softball player and teammate, check out Rijo Athletics.  I’ve had fun watching their teams progression this year.  If you want help improving team effectiveness at your company, give me a call at 206-420-5946 and let’s talk.

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