Implementing the high-performance organisation framework in your business

Building a high-performance team can be made much easier if you shape your needs around some key headings.

 

Here are some key ingredients that you will find in many high-performance teams from sport to business.

 

The first thing a functional team need is a clear vision and a set of goals. The simpler, the better. They must be easily recalled by everyone in the organisation and live and breathe daily.

 

That means you need to be talking about these shared goals all of the time. So weave them into as much of your working lives as you can.

 

What sits under those goals is a game plan. A detailed insight into the key steps you need to make as a team to achieve success. This plan must include owners and due dates and explicit measures of success.  Everyone must know when a step on the plan has been achieved.

 

Our values ultimately drive our behaviours. Because of that, we must get our shared values right. If you have values in your business, then make sure people live and breathe them daily and that they are not just words on a poster on a wall. If you don’t have values in your business, think about what they could be a begin to implement them.

 

Values are the adhesive that holds a team together through good and bad times.

 

A team will thrive when there is the utmost level of trust and support for each team member. Trust that people will do what they should do, play their part and have the team's back even in tough times. Support to be a friendly ear or a helping hand when required. 

 

This is right when people step in without being prompted or asked.

The more a team wins, the more a team wins! If you can build a momentum of success and achievement, this will lend itself very well to repeat performance. People don’t like losing and love winning, so this plays well to that emotion.

 

The New Zealand, all blacks have won 84% of the games they have played in the last two centuries. So they go onto the pitch with the belief they have already won. Do your teams have a culture of winning and success and do they believe they have won before starting?

 

Every single person in the team needs to take responsibility. This should be in two ways. The first is an individual responsibility – This is where the person has their tasks/deliverables for their job/role that they must deliver as part of the business agenda.

 

The second is team responsibility. Each person should be responsible for something that the entire team rely upon. This builds a feeling of inclusion and value and strengthens trust and support within the group.

 

Not done correctly, though, this can have an undoing effect on all the work you have done, so make sure you are set up to succeed from the off!