Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Team Question for Success

This is a great exercise for newly established teams or for those groups that have gone off-track.

Call the team together.

1. Ask each team member to articulate what they need from each person in that room or as a collective group to be successful. Write the answers down on a flipchart.

2. Have a dialogue regarding the answers collectively.

3. Do a new flipchart with key behaviors and actions.

4. Ask for agreement to model these behaviors. Once you achieve agreement, have every person sign-it.

5. Post the flipchart. Revisit the flipchart as needed. 


If the dynamics are really strained, do this exercise with the following modification to step one. Ask the individuals to write on a post-it note what he or she needs from the group to be successful. Then have them put on the wall, grouping their response with others that are like theirs. Then facilitate steps 2 to 4. If things have really gone south, consider getting a neutral outside party to facilitate.

From my experience, a leader is only as good as his or her collective team  


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