The Eight Essentials of Teams
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF
Managing Director, Leadership Strategies Inc.
Does each of the teams with which you are involved have the essentials for success? At Leadership Strategies, we are called in from time to time to work with teams at various stages in the team cycle.
- Often we are called in at the beginning to help charter the team and get the team started moving together in a consistent direction.
- Other times, we become involved while the team is engaged in the work. This frequently occurs with teams that are experiencing difficulties in achieving goals due to issues within the team.
- And still other times, we are asked to take a team through a debriefing exercise to document successful strategies and areas for improvement.
Through experiences like these with a variety of teams, we have identified what we believe are the "eight essentials" - that is, the eight things every team needs to be successful. We have found that a team missing one of the essentials can still be successful through persistence and strength of the team members, but it is very difficult. A team missing two essentials is severely handicapped and our experience has been that the chances of success are low. However, for a team missing three of the essentials, the likelihood of success is so low, one can predict with high probability that failure is imminent!
What are the eight essentials?
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