Assessment Criteria
- Explain the features of effective team performance
These powerful stats were just a few of the takeaways from the webcast, Why do Some Teams Success and Some Struggle. The Role of Behavioral Data to Develop High Performing Teams, co-hosted by PI Worldwide and the Human Capital Institute (HCI). In the broadcast, PI Worldwide’s Director of Learning & Development Michelle Kozin along with executives from Predictive Index® clients NewCap Media and Remy International discussed their strategies and best practices for building effective teams, including the following 5 important characteristics:
1. Meaningful Common Purpose: Individual contributors must collectively understand and commit to their team’s purpose. Therefore, it is up to the manager to clearly define the expectations and responsibilities for each role, and ensure alignment between the person and the role.
2. Clear Performance Goals: What does success look like? What is the group trying to accomplish? What work needs to be done to achieve the desired outcome? In high functioning teams, managers make sure that all contributors understand and accept both the end goal and the game plan for getting there.
3. Diversity of Skill and Personality: While managers should strive to have some consistencies in teams (i.e. See #1 and #2), bringing different people together who can offer different skills and perspectives will helps drive creativity and innovation. Moreover, it will help bring balance to the team in terms of tasks, people, risk and rules.
4. Strong Communication and collaboration: Effective communication between team members and from the manager to the team, sets the foundation for collaboration. Behavioral data can help managers get a better understanding of communication styles and motivating drives, all of which can help