Enhancing team performance

LEADING OTHERS

You build cohesive and high performing teams to deliver results that are more than the sum of individual efforts.

Quick tips

• Find a creative way to celebrate the success of the kapa [team].

• Create a Gantt chart for each kapa [team] objective and post it in a prominent place. Make sure you keep it updated.

• Give kapa [team] members specific shared goals and objectives to mahi [work] toward.

• Don’t be a barrier to the success of the kapa [team]; provide tautoko [support] and resources when they are needed.

• Involve kapa [team] members in the planning and decision-making processes that tautoko [support] kapa [team] objectives.

• Maximise each kapa [team] member’s effectiveness by considering personal strengths when assigning mahi [work].

• Address any kapa [team] cohesion issues proactively if they arise.

Practice this behaviour

Here are some ways you can practice this behaviour:

• Take over a struggling kapa [team] and lift its performance.

• Increase the autonomy of the kapa [team] so that it can make some of its own decisions.

• Lead a project kapa [team] where members are from different regions/locations.

• Manage a rapidly expanding kapa [team].

• Tautoko [support] another leader in the organisation who’s looking to increase the performance of their kapa [team].

What can hold you back

Here are some things that could get in the way of developing this behaviour:

• Not knowing what you want to achieve in terms of team norms. It can be hard to explain the behaviours you expect. Try to articulate these to everyone in the kapa [team] or facilitate a session to agree on kapa [team] norms.

• Focusing too much on either team performance or cohesion; find a way to balance these. Your job isn’t to keep everyone happy, nor do you want to sacrifice wellbeing for the sake of performance.

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