Identifying Optimization Points for your Team

It’s a beautiful thing when a team functions in harmony: brainstorming, thinking creatively, offering unique skills, seeing the bigger picture, and meeting a common goal with everyone actively participating equally. Unfortunately, this isn’t the reality for most professional teams today.

Over the past year, we’ve surveyed over 275 team leaders on major pain points to working collaboratively. Identifying these “Hot Spots” is half the battle. Three possible areas for improvement that could benefit your team are

1. Decision Making
2. Unclear Roles, and
3. Fuzzy Agreements.?

Read on to identify where you may be able to better align your team. Plus! Join us live today at 12p ET for Revealed: Top Hot Spots Creating Drag on Team Performance?

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Hot Spot: Decision Making

Unclear decision authority could be slowing down your team’s ability to effectively make strategic choices that matter. Developing a team practice of mapping and naming critical decision methods helps reduce noise and friction that may arise in the process.?

By learning a number of different smart decision approaches, teams are empowered to access a shared vocabulary and toolkit. This paves the way for getting clear about a specific approach for each and every core decision. It also expedites decision-making.?

Hot Spot: Unclear Roles & Responsibilities

If ambiguity is present surrounding teammates’ roles and responsibilities, we often see grabs for territory or duplication of efforts. Worse, tasks may be left incomplete because no one really knew whose hand it was in to start.?

When it is unclear what specific part each member plays, the team's ability to collaborate is diminished and it slows down their pace of strategic execution. Accountability mapping creates opportunities for teams to calibrate and align on key initiatives. The map helps clarify who is responsible for what within a team. All members benefit when they know “who’s on first!”

Hot Spot: Fuzzy Agreements

Accountability really is the key word when it comes to measuring the results we're driving together. Translating the nebulous idea of accountability into specific behaviors is how we amplify team performance.

If agreements are unclear from the beginning, it's difficult to hold each other responsible in the event of a breakdown. Furthermore, it’s hard to identify the breaking point or how to resolve the issues at play.?

Bamboo Teaming

At Bamboo Teaming, we make the most of your time and investment in team development.

For the best outcomes, we believe:

• Focus on both results and relationships is key to healthy team performance
• Learning in the context of your work makes change stick
• Addressing the source, not the symptoms, of performance drag pays off
• An emphasis on measurable results inspires sustainability

Let’s connect to help you optimize your team performance.?

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