Today's new team leader tip gets you thinking about, and in action around, creating shared team norms. High performing teams have spent time looking at, and creating, a set of shared team norms. Behaviors and things they will do consistently as a team. It is these shared norms, that help team members of all experience and tenure levels, understand what is, and what is not, acceptable on the team.
As I started writing seven years ago in both Effective Group Coaching, and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching, creating shared agreements on how groups and teams want to operate is key for success. Taking time at the start of new teams to create these shared agreements, as well as building in time for established teams to revisit their norms, can go a long way.
While the concept of the Team Charter, or Team Ways of Working, has been around for many years, it is regaining prominence with more mainstream writers such as Charles Duhigg in his latest book, Smarter, Faster, Better, providing examples such as Google who not only have implemented a process of shared behavioral norms within their teams. You may be interested in reading Duhigg's article from the NEw York Times earlier this year which goes into more detail. Click here to link to Duhigg's article "What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team"
What are your team's shared norms? What is accepted? What is taboo? I hope that today's new team leader tip will spark you to take action and have some dialogue across your team about team norms.
Have a great Friday,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
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As I started writing seven years ago in both Effective Group Coaching, and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching, creating shared agreements on how groups and teams want to operate is key for success. Taking time at the start of new teams to create these shared agreements, as well as building in time for established teams to revisit their norms, can go a long way.
While the concept of the Team Charter, or Team Ways of Working, has been around for many years, it is regaining prominence with more mainstream writers such as Charles Duhigg in his latest book, Smarter, Faster, Better, providing examples such as Google who not only have implemented a process of shared behavioral norms within their teams. You may be interested in reading Duhigg's article from the NEw York Times earlier this year which goes into more detail. Click here to link to Duhigg's article "What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team"
What are your team's shared norms? What is accepted? What is taboo? I hope that today's new team leader tip will spark you to take action and have some dialogue across your team about team norms.
Have a great Friday,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Check out our newest on-demand course: Teams365 Teamwork Foundations
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
Looking for more tips and ideas to support you in your work as a leader? Sign up for our monthly newsletter, full of tips, resources and hacks for leaders and team members looking to realize their potential. Sign up at http://bit.ly/teams365news
Phone: (416)996-8326
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