Kim Kanaga – författare

Despite all of the attention and accolades that organizations place on teams, they are not always the most efficient way to meet a business challenge. It''s expensive and time consuming to launch a team, and it''s a full-time job to lead a team toward achieving organizational objectives. This guidebook was written to help managers determine if a team is the right tool for meeting a business goal, and explains potential obstacles and challenges to forming a team that can operate at its full potential.

One of the first steps to take toward increasing team effectiveness is to pay attention to how the team is formed. You can head off most of the problems that beset teams during the formation stage by setting a clear direction, building organizational support, creating an empowering team design, identifying key relationships, and monitoring external factors. When a team is formed with the five high-performance principles described in this guidebook, it has a head start on achieving success.

Getting your team off on the right foot is critical to its success. This guidebook tells managers and team leaders how to address four critical points during the launch of a team: setting purpose and direction, defining roles and responsibilities, designing procedures and practices, and building cooperation and relationships. Understanding and implementing these key elements is key to a team''s achieving the goals the organization has set for it.

Between the time a team is launched and the time it delivers results, managers need to know that the team is on course. Whether they have launched a team to achieve a business objective or have inherited a team, they need to monitor effectiveness on an ongoing basis and make course corrections that keep small problems from becoming major disasters. Monitoring and maintaining team performance is a key element of leading a team. You can provide that leadership by paying attention to four important dimensions: team member effort, team member knowledge and skills, team tactics, and group dynamics. By focusing on those four areas, you can assess your team''s performance, zero in on areas of weakness, and take the corrective measures necessary to ensure peak performance and to deliver expected results.

Tra il momento in cui un team inizia a operare e il momento in cui ottiene risultati, i manager devono sapere che il team è sulla buona strada.Il monitoraggio e il mantenimento delle prestazioni di un team sono elementi chiave per qualsiasi leader.Puoi attuare questa leadership prestando attenzione a quattro importanti dimensioni: impegno dei membri del team, conoscenza e competenze dei membri del team, tattica del team e dinamica del gruppo. Concentrandoti su questi Quattro ambiti puoi valutare le prestazioni del tuo team, puntare sugli ambiti da migliorare e adottare le misure correttive necessarie a garantire prestazioni ottimali e raggiungimento dei risultati previsti.