Team building techniques to improve team
performance
Many different team building techniques can
be used to help teams improve their performance. The list of
technique documented here does not pretend to be complete: it is
based on our direct experience and on the results we have been able
to help client teams to build. The techniques are classified with
our team performance
model: the foundations of team performance are in the 3 last
categories: self mastery, mutual learning and mainly
constructive interactions.
Context
- Team vision (Visioning)
- Developing support for team performance
- Managing team stakeholder's and boundaries
Structure
- Team objectives (High Leverage
Results)
- Effective team membership
- Myers Briggs : effective roles based on "MBTI
preferences"
- Team norms and values
Processes
- Dilemma management
- Systemic analysis : Understanding how
systems change
- Effective decisions (Action Learning )
- Solving problems and opportunities
(Action Learning )
- Action planning, results monitoring and action
corrections ( Action Learning )
- Meeting management
Self-mastery
- 360 : open feedback from team members
- Myers Briggs : personal behavior from "MBTI
preferences"
- Delegating with
trust
- Interactions self-awareness ( Action Learning )
Mutual learning
We complete this list with the additional techniques used
by team coaches:
Team coaching
As you can see above, Action Learning is a very powerful team
coaching and performance improvement approach, addressing
simultaneously results driven team processes and the team learning
foundations of the team
performance model :
Return from team building
techniques to team building
results
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