How to Create a High-Performance Team

Brookfield WI

28 September, 2021

2:30 PM

Description

My name is Consuela Munoz, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. Business leaders hire me to master their strengths-based leadership because most are facing the "Great Resignation" and won't retain "A" players, maintain superior results and struggle to manage time, teams, and talents. So, I help build and engage their natural leadership style for ultimate success. Leaders want to have an advantage over their competitors and set the pace of success. Creating a high-performance team will give you that advantage. A McKinsey report found that companies that build high-performance teams are 56% more productive and 1.9 times likely to have above-median profits. What can you do to create a high-performing team? As a leader, it starts with you and will take both time and effort to create a team with high performance. Look at these three areas to focus your efforts in leading an unstoppable team. Communication Teams with high performance communicate more frequently, often daily, than other teams. More than how often is the kind of communication. You must create an environment where everyone feels safe to share their thought and ideas. This starts with building trust. Acknowledge the strengths and experience that every team member brings to the team and what they need to do best for the team. Demonstrate your integrity and communicate in an open and honest manner. When your team knows you have their best interest and their backs, creativity, and innovation will follow. Teamwork High-performance teams have their individual tasks and responsibilities but work together toward their goals. A well-rounded team allows each member to use their strengths in the way that best helps the team succeed. As a leader, it is also important for you to be clear about the purpose of the work you are doing as well as the goals needed to achieve that purpose. Teams that are purpose-driven are more engaged and productive. Execution Strategy High-performance teams have an advantage when it comes to execution. Having a clear and combined purpose with honest communication makes it easy to develop a strategy based on the strengths of your team. Too often leaders or team members step up for tasks not in their strengths because "someone needs to do it" and hurt their team and themselves with poor results. This is avoided when you determine what strengths are needed to achieve your large and small goals and aligning them with team members with those strengths. That is how you will maximize your results. Leaders that create and lead high-performance teams will see increased profit and productivity as well as improvement in other areas. They establish trust and create an environment for open communication that inspires creativity and innovation from their team. Every team member is valued for the strengths and experience they bring to achieve the shared purpose. Their strengths-based strategy for execution will yield superior results. Consuela Munoz is a leadership and a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. She is a trainer, speaker, and founder & organizer of the C School. Following a 15-year career at a privately held, multinational company employing 13,000 with $10 billion in sales, Munoz founded Own Your Confidence in 2018. Own Your Confidence is located at 200 S. Executive Drive, Suite 101, Brookfield, Wis. 53005. For more information, contact Consuela Munoz at 262-537-5959 or by email at [email protected]. www.ownyourconfidence.com