Jul 14, 2021
You may be able to do it alone, even get pride out of being a
solo winner, but I promise you that you are white knuckling it way
more than you need to, and you have major blind spots. You are most
likely leaving opportunity and even greater success on the table
without knowing it. One of the most important things you can do to
go further, faster in work and life, is surround yourself with
other high-performing people - to build your high-performing team.
We all have teams, or can build one. Teams come in a lot of
different forms. It could be your employees, your partners, your
mastermind, your study group, your colleagues. In this episode I
break down the key aspects to building your high-performing team:
what a team really is, why it matters, the mistakes to avoid, the
way to build your team, and the stages of a high-performing
team.
#1 What a team really is. Hint, it's so much
more than a group of people with common goal. And, a team isn't
just your employees or direct reports. Team shows up in a lot of
different ways, depending on where you are in work and
life.
#2 What building your high-performing team
matters:
- How it's selfish and selfish to build your
high-performing team (this was a little bit of a rant)
- Speed. High-performing teams solve problems
faster and seize opportunities faster. Marketplace demands speed.
Time is no longer a luxury any of us can afford
- Leverage you full bench: get people off the
sidelines and onto the playing field. And, people want to
contribute, it's human nature.
- Stronger solutions. High-performing teams
build stronger solutions. Turns out you can do it alone, but it
won't turn out as well
#3 Mistakes we make:
- Normalize versus diversify: Taking a diverse
team of A-players and trying to make them all think, act, work in a
certain way. This turns teams from great to good, not the other way
around
- Instant gratification: Assuming a
high-performing team happens overnight is false. This is where
people jump ship too soon.
- Foosball and kombucha: Thinking that a few
drinks or a foosball table is going to elevate performance. Fun is
important, but it's not what builds a high-performing team
#4 How to Build your high-performing team:
- Be a Football Team: In sports, each player is
bringing their best, in their role, and working with everyone else
to be their best. They need each person to be the best, in their
way, and then bring that to the team goal. You can't have all
quarterbacks on your team
- Embrace friction: Don't deny or run away from
friction, embrace it, even sit in it. Friction is good for
performance. Consider friction an opportunity to seek to
understand
- Make it like a daily coffee: You don't build a
team and the ignore it. High-performing teams require ongoing
nurturing, or they go backwards
# 5 Stages of your high-performing team:
- Forming: building, coming together, figuring
each other out - strengths and gaps
- Falling: identifying and addressing the
challenges, working through the sticking points
- Fusion: the team is gelling and coming
together, you are seeing the payoff of your efforts.
- High-Performing: high-five each other because
things are paying off, all engines are a go. Here you need to
continue to nurture the team.
I LOVE my Passion
Planner. It's planning, organization, exploration and more.
It's the perfect system for visual organizers like me. I couldn't
recommend more.
This is the link to Derek Siver's Ted talk I
mentioned about the first follower and how to start a movement. One
of my all time favorite ones. You'll get a lot out of just 3
minutes.
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