High performing teams aren’t just a collection of strong individual performers. They don’t leave great performance to luck or personality, they design for success. Find out what they do with this slideshare! For more leadership tips, check out www.workboard.com!

1. 6 Hallmarks of
High Performing Teams
Deidre Paknad
CEO & Co-Founder of Workboard

2. High performing teams seem to generate their own
energy and elevate everyone on the team to their
full potential.

3. What sets high performing teams apart and why
aren’t all teams so successful and fun?
They aren’t just a collection of strong individual performers. They don’t
leave great performance to luck or personality, they design for success.
They have…
Defined Goals
Committed Actions
True Transparency
Frequent Feedback
Unabashed Accountability
Celebrated Successes

4. Defined Goals
Defined goals and a clear plan to achieve
them are essential to great performance.
Abstract annual goals aren’t enough.
Teams need shorter-range, compelling and
clear goals that unify and galvanize them on
shared purpose.
Sequencing these to an annual result works
well, but it’s key that the team wants to
achieve the goals.

5. Committed Actions
Successful teams write down the
committed actions each person owns on
the path to goal achievement (and they waste
less time determining who owns what).
Members feel a sense of personal
ownership and have a shared intention
to accomplish the results they’ve committed
to the team week over week.
Making progress on actions aligned with a goal
people believe in energizes people and elevates
their performance, according to author and
Harvard professor Teresa Amabile.

6. True Transparency
Facts and status enable
members of the team to work more
effectively together. They can pivot
or adjust course quickly on
unforeseen events, and execute with
greater efficiency and predictability.
Embracing transparency is
one of the most distinct features of
high performing teams (and a stark
contrast to the politicized and
professional “ball hiders” that
frequent lesser performing teams).

7. True Transparency
People with written goals and
written action plans improves
goal achievement
43%
Adding status reports boosts
the likelihood of achievement
to 76%

8. Unabashed Accountability
The team leader and members hold themselves and each other
accountable for their commitments and goal achievement
week to week.

9. Unabashed Accountability
When the team or a person comes up short,
it’s not swept under the rug – it’s
triaged and addressed quickly to get back on
track to goal.
There is a uniform expectation of each
other, that when combined with a uniformly
high level of commitment to goal,
are the essence of a high performing team’s
greatness.

10. Frequent Feedback
Members of the team get and ask for regular feedback on their work. Learning
members get positive feedback that enables them to learn and engage
quickly, while expert members get constructive feedback that helps them
continuously advance already-mature skills.
Because team members are focused on achievement and respect each other’s
commitments and efforts, feedback is easier to give and apply.

11. Celebrate Success
They savor the small and
the big wins as a team.
High performing teams celebrate
people’s individual contributions
and the accomplishments of the
team as a whole.
In large matrixed organizations
where teams coalesce and disband
quickly, it takes extra effort to
celebrate success but it is
actually more rewarding
than a cash bonus, according to
McKinsey.

12. It's not just the business results…
People who’ve worked on high performing teams tend to remember the experience
and their team mates vividly for years to come.
When they describe the experience, they use words like “epic” and there is tangible
pride and gratitude in their voice. That team imprint is far greater and longer
lasting than its contribution to the company at which its members worked.

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