High-performance teams: characteristics and how to manage them

Human talent is the main asset of companies since it is what allows them to carry out actions and activities that make them stand out from others. But for that, they must develop skills to generate high-performance teams, that are productive, efficient, and lead to success.

These teams refer to people who perform collaborative work, share objectives without neglecting individual purposes, have similar values, and continuously seek to improve their skills and competencies.

But what exactly should they look like and how should they be managed? 

Characteristics of high-performance teams

High autonomy

Team members are capable of making decisions and choosing the best strategy to develop certain tasks, in addition to knowing which tools to adopt to achieve the company's goals.

Commitment

As values and principles are shared, much closer ties are established. Commitment is usually higher and aligned with the achievement of the corporation's objectives.

Good communication

Within high-performing teams, the exchange of information is usually quite fluid and clear. People share data and take feedback into account to improve productivity and performance.

Cooperation is a very important part, which has a direct impact on interpersonal relationships and results.

Culture of innovation

Constantly seeking to keep workflows up to date in terms of technology and reduction of effort or time is important, as it is known that traditional methods can lead to monotony and generate problems or more work.

Pursuit of excellence

High-performance teams usually dedicate sufficient time to detect failures, problems, or inconsistencies that are affecting the development of activities to seek effective solutions and stop them from happening again.

How to manage them with help from London Consulting Group

At London Consulting Group (LCG) we know that companies face many challenges and one of them is to be able to have and, above all, manage high-performance teams.

Our Leadership development program specializes in enabling middle managers with the knowledge and tools they need to achieve it.

Some of the advantages are:

• Getting the mindset of middle managers to evolve to a more agile mindset when faced with change.
• Leaders capable of leading teams using different leadership styles by also applying emotional intelligence.
• Ability to structure innovation processes through the use of agile technologies that help improve process efficiency.
• Ability to build a working system based on objectives to improve the results of the different areas.

Our program consists of:

1. Leading progress

Senior management understands and generates awareness of the importance of being involved in the different transformation processes of the company to achieve high-performance teams.

Likewise, they must be open to change, as a transformation of their management and leadership will be required to gain different results.

2. Team development

Those who are part of the program can generate self-knowledge and awareness of the importance of personal development.

The objective is to empower them to take charge of their growth through the Individual Development Plan (IDP).

3. Leadership and transformation

Get participants to go much deeper into emotional intelligence and understand the components that make it up, being able to identify its importance in leadership.

4. Innovation management

Innovation competencies should be enhanced with practical, agile, and functional tools that help to detect areas of opportunity in a much more effective and simple way.

This will also prepare people to work on an innovation HUB project.

5. Performance Accelerators

Focus on understanding and building a culture based on objectives and the impact it has on teams and the organization.

To do this, it is very important to consider what happens when teams do not work by objectives, how real goals can be set based on the SMART methodology, the importance of quick wins, and the tools that can help in all these tasks.

6. Road to Success

Staff use work systems that allow greater speed and agility in the different work areas.

How will this be done? Through the PASER (Planning, Assignment, Supervision, Evaluation and Feedback) program and the establishment of a work system to focus tasks and achieve goals.

7. High Performance Teams

Learn and apply the characteristics of high-performance teams to have an impact on the results of the different departments.

To this end, the stages of a team, the training models available for a team of these characteristics, and the different existing models, such as Estrella, GRIP, 4 C's, etc., should be studied in depth.

8. Atomic Habits

The last module of the program is designed to reinforce what has been learned through the discovery and development of new habits that help maintain agility, innovation, and effectiveness in professional and personal life.

Here it is important to know what habits are and what importance or power they have, how they are composed and how they shape people's identity, as well as how they can be changed to generate behavior modification.

Conclusion

Having high-performance teams is one of the keys to success. It is necessary to have the knowledge to guide the company and train leaders capable of building and managing them.

Therefore, at London Consulting Group, we focus on making leaders capable of embracing change and managing their teams towards constant agility and innovation.

If you want to make a change in your team, contact us! Let's talk about how we can help you through our corporate solutions and programs.