Mastering High-Performance Teams: Strategies for Success – Nick Fewings
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Nick Fewings' book, 'Mastering High-Performance Teams,' emphasizes the critical elements of teamwork for project success, highlighting that 70% of projects fail due to poor communication and understanding of team roles. It advocates for measuring teamwork effectiveness and efficiency to enhance performance and includes frameworks for improving team dynamics. The text outlines practical steps for teams to create a shared purpose and measure their collective performance to achieve greater success.
Mastering High-Performance Teams: Strategies for Success – Nick Fewings
- 1. Mastering high-performance teams: Strategies for success Nick Fewings, Teamworkologist, Ngagementworks
- 4. “Great teamwork just doesn’t happen. It happens in teams that work at being great.” Nick Fewings TEAMWORKOLOGIST
- 5. “It’s not often that you get a chance to find a new book dedicated to teamwork – a subject that is so critical to group and corporate development. So when Nick Fewings’ book arrived, I was delighted to review it. A formidable amount of work went into this book, and it’s a nice book to own. I am holding onto my copy.” Richard Noble, OBE and Honorary Fellow of APM Holder of the land speed record in Thrust 2 (1987-1997) and Project Director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which currently holds the land speed record.
- 6. ➢ Understand the 3 top reasons why projects fail ➢ Find out what underpins the success of KPIs ➢ The importance of knowing HOW effective and efficient your teamwork is ➢ Suggestions from Team Lead Succeed to help you and your team achieve high-performance and greater success
- 7. WHO WANTS THEIR PROJECT TO SUCCEED?
- 8. 70% of projects fail to achieve their desired goals #2 Lack of common understanding of the team’s purpose #1 Poor understanding of the skills of the team #3 Little or no understanding of how effective or efficient their teamwork is
- 9. We don’t know the skills of our colleagues in our team. We don’t have the tools to help us understand how good or bad our teamwork is.
- 10. Teamwork Effectiveness/Efficiency High-Performing Average Dysfunctional Source: Team DyNAmics Big Data 2014-22 50% 40% 10%
- 11. The Problem
- 12. HISTORIC LEARNING TOO MUCH FOCUS ON TASK TOO MUCH RELIANCE ON SOFTWARE
- 14. The Solution
- 15. MORE FOCUS AND TIME SPENT ON UNDERSTANDING AND ENHANCING TEAMWORK
- 16. “Far too often, leaders and teams are expected to achieve high-levels of performance, yet aren’t aware or provided with the important tools that will help them to achieve it.”
- 17. What KPIs do you measure on your projects?
- 18. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS However, it is HOW effective and efficient your teamwork is that makes a difference to these KPIs
- 19. EFFECTIVENESS: DOING THE RIGHT THING (PURPOSE OR WHAT YOU DO) EFFICIENCY: DOING THINGS RIGHT (RESOURCEFULNESS OR HOW YOU DO IT)
- 20. How many of you measure HOW effective and efficient your teamwork is? 1% Achieving High-Performance Teamwork Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore Based on responses from approximately 600 project management delegates from Europe, North America, Africa, the Far East, Middle East and Australia.
- 21. PEOPLE deliver PROJECTS and SUCCEED through TEAMWORK
- 22. Knowing WHO is in your team Knowing HOW effectively and efficiently you work together The Two Foundations Of High- Performance Teamwork
- 23. What is Team DyNAmics? Strategic Action Framework Mapping Creative Interactions Team DyNAmics is a measurement tool, that enables a team to understand HOW effectively their teamwork is across 16 Elements, vital in achieving high-performance teamwork. Coactive Connections
- 24. The Team DyNAmics Report Your Score
- 25. Below 65% Developing Team Performance 65% - 85% Average Team Performance 85%+ High-Performing Team Performance The Team DyNAmics Report
- 26. There is a 4% imbalance between Task related Elements and Relationship related Elements. Framework Mapping (55%) and Creative Interactions (65%) need investigating.
- 28. The higher the level, the more impact it has on the effectiveness and efficiency of teamwork.
- 29. The understanding of what the team exists to do, what this enables and the benefits this delivers. Team Purpose 4 out of 10 team members say that their team purpose and team objectives are not known. Source: Ngagementworks, Team DyNAmics© Big Data 2015-21
- 30. Team Purpose Statement 1. Do The XYZ Team exists to do… 2. Enable which enables …. 3. Benefits that result in …. Motivate 1 min No Jargon Understandable
- 31. 1. Do The Finance Team exists to ensure the timely delivery of value-adding financial data and information to our global business units, 2. Enable which enables them to make informed investment decisions, 3. Benefits that result in tangible benefits to our customers, staff and organisation. To produce monthly accounts that are as accurate as possible as quickly after month-end. Motivate 1 min No Jargon Understandable Team Purpose Statement
- 32. Ngagementworks exists to provide learning and development solutions Do Enables that engage individuals and motivates teams, helping them to transform and achieve even greater success. Benefits
- 33. At your next team meeting ask your team to individually write down what they think your Team Purpose is. Share what each person has written, plus yours. Then collaborate to develop a Team Purpose statement that ALL your team have helped to create and in doing so, buy-in to. Team Purpose: Recommendation
- 34. SUMMARY #2. AS A MINIMUM, ENSURE EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT YOUR TEAM EXISTS TO DO, WHAT THAT ENABLES AND THE BENEFITS. #3. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP WHEN YOU FEEL YOUR TEAMWORK COULD BE BETTER. #1. THINK ABOUT HOW YOU AND YOUR TEAM CAN MEASURE YOUR TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY.
- 37. [email protected] 07966 306903 www.teamleadsucceed.com LinkedIn: Nick Fewings Teamworkologist Twitter: Nick_Fewings Instagram: @nickfewings
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