The Advantage

Team Effectiveness Exercise

the team effectiveness exercise

Conflict is about issues and ideas, while accountability is about performance and behavior.

These are the six questions:
1. Why do we exist?
2. How do we behave?
3. What do we do?

. How will we succeed?
5. What is most important, right now?
6. Who must do what?

twenty years of consulting to clients in virtually every industry, I have yet to meet a group of leaders who made me think, Wow, these people just don’t know enough about their business to succeed. Really

The fact is that the best human systems are often the simplest and least sophisticated ones. Their primary purpose is not to avoid lawsuits or emulate what other companies are doing but rather to keep managers and employees focused on what the organization believes is important. That’s why a one-page, customized performance review form that managers embrace and take seriously is always better than a seven-page, sophisticated one designed by an organizational psychologist from the National Institute for Human Transformation and Bureaucracy (there is no such thing).

The problem can be solved only by the leadership team taking an active role in building human systems that reflect and reinforce the uniqueness of the organization’s culture and operations. They must ensure that hiring profiles, performance management processes, training programs, and compensation systems are relevant, and the only way to do that is to design them specifically around the answers to the six questions.

organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it