The Five Secrets of High-Performing Teams

Average teams tend to work hard, but they're more reactive, more transactional and execution is often done by individuals, not the team. High performing teams deliver the most important things consistently, and they deliver together. There's a secret to doing this that will let you into in this Connect.

Human beings are hardwired to be relational, but in the competitive, fast-paced world of business teams can become tunnel visioned into achieving tasks, delivering technical expertise, and in doing so sometimes creating friction and challenge in the dynamics. So what's the payback for investing on developing your work relationships?

Good teams are often nice. You feel it. Everyone's friendly, meetings are smooth and people are polite. But these teams can be missing the ingredients of psychological safety that would actually accelerate their performance. What do the best teams do to build on the niceness to really deliver? We'll take a look at the theory and also share some Squadify client success stories about how they made the shift and the impact that it had.

Clarity for a team can be a challenge to nail down, particularly when there's internal change, external challenges, and even chaos, which seems to make it a moving target. It's easy enough to fall back onto individual KPIs and relegate the importance of team goals. But high-performing teams buck this trend and show a specific discipline to make success a shared experience by developing and reviewing a collective goal and plan. The Squadify global data proves that indeed these teams have clarity at a whole new level.

In the next five Connects, we'll be drawing on the latest science and particularly sharing some insights from Squadify's almost 2 million data points to help to rapidly accelerate your own teams. We hope we can help you to take the guesswork out of teamwork.