Disconnected and disengaged employees cost companies in the USA an estimated $1.9 trillion in 2023.
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Your team’s performance upgrade starts here.
We designed these 12 tools to help you maximise the engagement, alignment and connection of your team across all levels by focusing on foundational team culture principles that are applicable no matter your industry. Applying these team growth tools will ensure your team goes to the next level.
Crew
This tool helps leaders clarify the vision and mission for their team or organization.
Without vision teams get confused, misaligned and stuck, leading to unproductive time and wasted effort. Or there might be a vision, but it is not clear enough for the team to unite behind and get excited about. This tool helps the leaders of the team set and communicate a clear vision and mission statement.
This tool helps leaders and teams deal with change dynamically and systematically.
In an ever-changing world, teams need to be agile and ready to adapt at a more regular pace than usual. However, very few teams take a systematic approach to change. Whenever there is a big change, teams need to navigate through the change smartly and logically. This tool guides your team through the steps they need to take to work through the change, and process and overcome the typical hurdles between each phase.
This tool helps team members clarify who is responsible for what.
When assigning roles & responsibilities there is often confusion around who is ultimately responsible for the task and who needs to run with the task. When can someone make decisions and when do they need to let the leader make the decision? This tool helps teams clarify roles and responsibilities.
Team
This tool helps teams set smart goals that are achievable, meaningful and keep everyone aligned and motivated.
Whether they are written down or not, all teams are pursuing some form of goals together. Most teams write the goals down, but very few teams have prioritised or aligned their efforts on achieving those goals, and even fewer have a clear understanding on the specifics of each objective. On top of that, few teams have developed the skill to craft objectives that are specific, meaningful, measurable and relevant. This tool will help teams create objectives which drives performance.
This tool provides a team with principles and steps to follow to address and resolve conflict.
Effectively managing conflict is not only valuable for effectively navigating inevitable conflict and confrontation, but it is also invaluable for teams if they are able to engage in productive conflict in their decision-making processes. Unfortunately, how people act during conflict can cause relational damage within the team. Very few teams have sat together to talk about team principles and approaches when addressing conflict. This tool aims to put down principles when addressing conflict, as well as steps to take to ensure healthy conflict resolution.
This tool helps teams set clear ways of working around communication channels.
Lots of time gets wasted when incorrect or out of date information is shared between team members. But communication issues are more than just misleading information being passed along, such as:
- Sub-optimal channels being used, resulting in unnecessary conflict and wasted time.
- Shallow communication resulting in shallow relationships and limited trust being built.
This tool aims to provide principles of communication within the team which will result in time being saved, and healthy relationships being built.
Family
This tool helps teams craft values that impact their operations.
Values assist in entrenching DNA within each team, which is crucial in developing belonging and identity within the team. Values are often only words on the boardroom wall of a company. It rarely impacts behaviour and operations. This tool will assist in operationalising values within the team.
This tool helps leaders reinforce the team ethos by incorporating elements of fun into routine activities.
Fun is a regularly underestimated tool when it comes to entrenching core values and reinforcing ethos in a team. This tool helps leaders come up with creative ways of building fun into daily team routines in a way that is inclusive, and reinforces the decided-upon values of the team.
This tool provides practical ways to build trust within a team.
Even though many teams know that ‘trust’ is the foundation to building a high performing team, very few teams know how to actively build trust within a team. This tool will guide your team to build trust.
School
This tool helps teams systematically solve complex problems.
Teams have to solve problems daily, sometimes requiring input from multiple team members. Few teams know how to get the most out of everyone to come up with the best solutions for the problems they face. This tool aims to provide a framework for solving complex problems as a team.
This tool helps team members create a development plan in a systematic way.
Mastery and continuous improvement are vital aspects for each team member to stay motivated in their work and to keep on progressing professionally. Many people do not progress in their careers because they are not intentional enough to plan for their development. This tool helps team members create a development plan through a series of critical questions.
This tool helps teams offer valuable feedback to team members on tasks performed, which helps the team to continuously improve.
Have you ever wanted to engage a colleague about below par work they have done, but you are not sure how to approach the discussion? Have you ever wanted feedback on a task you performed, but you were not sure what or how to ask for feedback? Have you had retrospective meetings with your team and the same mistakes are mentioned than a previous meeting? Having a feedback system with a thorough list and steps on the feedback process will prevent these scenarios.