Chapter 16: Leading High-Performance Teams

Chapter 16: Leading High-Performance Teams

1. Team Building

   • Sequence of planned activities used to gather and analyze data on the functioning of a team to implement constructive changes to increase the team's operating effectiveness
   • Ultimate Goal: to create more and better teamwork among members of the group

2. NOT a step in the Team Building Process: Evaluate Results

3. The continuing effort to refine and apply creative team concepts should be at the forefront of any progressive manager's action agenda

4. NOT a Characteristic of High-Performing Teams: A Conflict Intense Environment

5. Strong and Principled Leadership

   • The real key to strong developing and sustaining high-performing teams

6. Effective Team Leaders

   • Establishing a clear vision, creating change, and unleashing talent are characteristics
   • They establish a clear vision of the future; They help to create change and unleash talent; They create supportive climates and empower team members; They use personal examples to demonstrate the importance of putting team interest above self-interest