UPDATED! 2023 – Building High-Performance & Effective Teams

Developing High Performance Teams with SCORE™ Framework 

“In most teams, the energies of individual members work at cross purposes. Individuals may work extraordinarily hard, but their efforts do not translate into a team effort, and this results in wasted energy. By contrast, when a team becomes more aligned, a commonality of direction emerges, and individual energies harmonize. You have a shared vision and an understanding of how to complement each other’s efforts. As jazz musicians say, “You are in the groove.” From experience gathered through team effectiveness consulting engagements, it is found that a high-performing team demonstrates a high level of synergism – the simultaneous actions of separate entities that together have a greater effect than the sum of their individual efforts. It is possible, for example, for a team’s efforts to exemplify an equation such as 2 + 2 = 5!”

– Prof Sattar Bawany (2023) – Leadership in Disruptive Times: Negotiating the New Balance

Building High Performance Teams: Using SCORE Framework

Introduction

Teams have become a principal building block to the strategy of successful organizations. With teams at the core of corporate strategy, your success as an organization can often depend on how well you and other team members operate together. 

In today’s highly networked business environment, teams are critically important to getting work done.  Yet not all teams are created equal.  Some fail to perform, or they perform below expectations.  Some start out well but later lose their focus and energy.  Teams are extremely valuable if they are working well.  They are very costly if they are not.  It is critical for managers and team leaders to find ways to ensure their teams are working effectively and are achieving their results.

The success of a team should be measured at regular intervals so that team spirit can be encouraged, either through celebrating achievements or sharing problems. In terms of measuring success, it is perhaps easier to gauge the progress of a sports team than it is to rate the performance of work-based teams. For example, the performance of a sports team can usually be tracked by league tables.

Importance of Building a High-Performance Team in a VUCA World

Working as part of a successful team makes work enjoyable. It provides employees with a supportive work environment and enables them to address any conflict that might arise in a constructive way.

In high-performing teams, leadership shifts during the stages of team development are based on team needs.  Unlike organizational leadership, which remains somewhat constant, team leadership can shift from very directing, when the team is being formed, to more delegating, when the team is functioning effectively. To transform into a high-performance team, an easily implementable framework such as ‘S.C.O.R.E.’ would assist in achieving that end goal.

Cultivating a group of individuals into a high-performing team, responsible for achieving the shared vision of the organization, is critical to business success. As research shows, for any team to perform at its best, you must be aligned with vision and values. For leadership teams, in particular, you must be able to draw upon your collective creativity to effectively navigate through increasing levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this Masterclass, the participant will be able to leverage a proven framework, “S.C.O.R.E.™” to lead and engage their teams towards a high-performance organization so as to ensure continued success in a VUCA World.

The program incorporates a number of unique features and works on a number of levels. It is specifically aimed at enhancing and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviors of the participants.

The participants will develop their understanding of Leadership Effectiveness and how it will lead to a creation of a sustainable competitive advantage for their respective organizations through the development of an organizational climate that will contribute towards enhancing employee engagement and productivity during challenging times when operating in a disruptive VUCA business environment.

Who this course is for:

• Those in a leadership, managerial and/or supervisory role.