CREATING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
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To build strong teams, the Drexler Sibbet model provides a structure to team building. Using this structure, team-building workshops set your teams up for success. Creating a team purpose, ensuring trust, aligning on an ambitious goal, and setting aside time and resources to support the team.
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A key ingredient for high-performing teams is having bold goals. We recommend following the DUMB goals structure. The fresh perspectives it offers you and your teams ensure goals and ambitions are aligned with the organization’s purpose. Once they have set their goals, the purpose of all future team meetings is to uncover the “how” to achieve their DUMB goal. Team’s will be uncustomed to setting goals which they do not know how to achieve. But this is the key. The power of teams is people working together, thinking and uncovering innovative ways to achieve the goal. When that has been cracked wide open, the focus, ambition and drive can be unleashed and the true power of a high-performing team will be felt.
After teams have been through a workshop and developed new ways of working and set a dumb goal, it is now critical for to ensure things don't just return to the way they were. A line in the sand must be drawn to ensure teams remain on track with the new process and ideas.
Critically important to team success is the team leaders following through with the workshop outputs. However, it is also vital to maintain and monitor your teams to keep them focused and on track. Initially, it is easy for teams to return to their old ways. It is the leader's job, and the job of the team leader, to stop this from happening.
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