Building a High Performance Team

Written by Lindsay McKenna

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Index

Why High Performance Teamwork

  • What is a team?
  • Group versus Team

The Project Players

  • What does the project team consist of?
  • Core team members
  • Associate team members
  • Invisible team member

Belonging to a high performing project team

  • The generic role of team member
  • How to be an ideal team member
  • The challenges of membership
  • The inherent challenge in making project teams work

The right project leader

  • The myth about project leadership
  • The real role of project leader
  • Are you ready for high performance teamwork?
  • Some leadership challenges to confront
  • Leadership with attitude
  • Moving from autocratic leader
  • Project leader assessment
  • Project leader assessment form
  • The benefits of project leadership

Putting the project team together

  • Is this really selection
  • Identifying the expertise and experience required
  • Selection criteria
  • Advertising the project
  • Selection activities
  • Confirming membership on the team
  • Contracting with team members’ line managers
  • Contracting with team members

The journey to high performance teamwork

  • Getting started
  • Do we need to be a team?
  • Why am I here?
  • Getting to know you
  • Team reviews
  • Team meeting evaluation form
  • Empowering the team
  • Creating a Teamworking Charter
  • Teamworking Charter Form

The Team Performance Chart

  • Engaging
  • Enabling
  • Energising
  • Essential Element: Purpose
  • Purpose - evidence of success
  • Essential Element: Commitment
  • Team Commitment Form
  • Commitment - evidence of success
  • Essential Element: Trust
  • The Trust Gauge
  • Trust - evidence of success

Measuring progress and accomplishment

  • Managing changes to the team
  • Speedy integration of new team members
  • Some common team issues

Virtual Teamworking

  • Virtual team challenges
  • Successful virtual teams
  • Are you suited to virtual teamworking?
  • Getting the best out of audio and video conferences

Conclusion and closure

  • The bubble has burst
  • What next?
  • Team Reviews
  • Team Member Review
  • Team Member Review Form
  • Peer Review Form
  • Team Effectiveness Review
  • Team Effectiveness Review Form
  • Celebration
  • Conclusion

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