Before we jump into tactics let's talk about the definition of success. How would you define a successful team? You might measure team success by the cohesiveness of the team.
Was the team really close? Are they a tight organization that from now on has one another's backs? Would you measure success based on the culture of the team or is the success of the team boiled down to having successful deliverables? Perhaps you measure success by the amount of planning that went into the team projects or clarity of vision or purpose.
Maybe you measure success by how well the communication was of the team. Maybe you're just looking at the leadership of the team. Was the leader a great leader and therefore made the team successful? Was it about the individual willingness? Was everybody ready to give it their all and do the best they could for the team? You might measure team success based on the attitude of the team.
Did everybody walk away loving what they did or are they kind of resentful about even being on the team in the first place? Typically people look at the final deliverable of the team and that's what determines whether the team was "successful" or not.
As a business owner and a manager there might be other reasons why you put people on a team. It might have a lot more to do with the culture and cohesiveness than a final product, especially if you have a product that's not that important.
You might have seen this in organizations where people were put on a project that didn't seem to be that important. The project and the team might have simply been a vehicle... to help pull people together to get a shared vision, to develop the culture, to build unity in the organization, etc.
Teams can be put together for more than just getting a final deliverable out. Here's my final question about team success. It seems to be a popular idea right now in corporate world that we need to embrace failure. We need to allow failure and not be afraid of failure.
The idea is that failure means that we're getting closer to a more successful result. I would invite you to think about the teams you're on or that you've ever been on and think about what the feeling of failure is or has been. Can you imagine an R&D department where failure wasn't an option? Failure's part of the package. They need to fail in order to get closer to their success.
Setting up a successful team, you must define how the team members fit together.
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