Scores on the Board™ has allowed us to adopt a systematic approach to team development that we own both individually and collectively. The system helped us quickly increase alignment while developing innovative solutions for our business.
Liz Grant
Group Manager
Commercial Services
Team Development
Organisations around the world universally agree that the creation, development and effective leadership of teams is central to their ongoing ability to innovate, compete and ultimately succeed in meeting the needs of their customers, employees and shareholders.
Central to building effective and high performance teams is a fast and practical team development strategy and process. This is something that a small proportion of team leaders know innately how to do. Others, through experience and coaching on team building, have learned how to do it. Sometimes a facilitator is used for team building – some of these people are highly skilled at conducting team building workshops.
Team development often follows a predictable pattern, sometimes referred to as the FSNP – or Form, Storm, Norm and Perform process. A team is initially Formed to achieve a particular objective, then the members Storm around trying to work out what they are trying to do, who has what skills, what preferences for what activities – during this stage there is often much confusion and very little in the way of results. At this stage the leader will help the team agree some Norms or rules about how they will operate together and finally the team moves to the last stage, namely Performance.
However most workplace teams are already in existence and have an ongoing lifecycle where their leader may change, their team members certainly change and an ongoing process of change in technology, tools, and priorities impact the team. Team development is essential to help team members acquire the mindsets, skills and motivation to deal with these changes and play their part in the team performing.
Ongoing team development is an essential requirement for a team to be consistently high performing. This requires more than an annual day of team development exercises or adventures. It demands an ongoing process, a systematic approach that the team owns and pursues to lead and manage themselves for outstanding performance and continuous improvements.
Following the 3 hour Scores on the Board™ Workshop teams can immediately start to implement the system. As the team members actively participate in building their team’s vision, setting specific team goals and creating and implementing their actions they become immediately more involved and feel more valued. They also build their individual skills in the areas of communication, creative problem solving, goal setting, action planning and their specific job competencies. Compared to traditional team development training or initiatives, the team learns how to prioritise, set goals, agree action plans and encourage work completion by each other. In addition they learn how to create and a compelling team vision that will inspire them to learn from each other and perform at their best. These skills are built and improved over each Scores on the Board™ cycle with the leader being able to access their Scores on the Board™ Coach for support in using the system.
Implementing Scores on the Board™ will deliver a bigger performance improvement from team development than going it alone or investing the time and money of developing a specific team development program or sending employees out to external team development courses.
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