Teams make up and define organisations, but many fail to achieve their potential and some verge on dysfunctional. But some teams manage to raise their performance to another level and maintain it.
How can you ensure your teams are utilising individual and collective strengths to drive up performance, creating a contagious energy that will flow through a team?
The secret is that these teams have unearthed and unleashed their individual and collective strengths and limited the impact of any risks to achieve their goals. Successful teams have also learned how to flex and reinvent themselves as situations demand by building a strong team culture. Strong teams have clarity on team purpose, objectives and values.
“The biggest difference is the step change in performance, taking us from an already high performing team to one I consider a brilliant team.”
Participating Team Leader, Linde Group
High performing teams set a standard of excellence and know each other’s strengths to help them achieve their goals. Each team member identifies and masters their own strengths and together they share with others, to develop the people around them and, nurture peak performance.
As well as figuring out how best to deploy their individual and collective strengths, the most effective teams go further. These teams identify the strengths that can derail them when they go ‘into overdrive’. They pinpoint the areas that drain them. Then they make a plan to actively manage these risks.
Teams can avoid risks with these four ways to ensure team success.
A strengths development programme will build awareness of strengths and overdrive risks, that your teams will find insightful and immediately relevant in the way they work together and deliver results.
A team’s habits make up its culture. Good disciplines and productive habits maximise strengths and minimise their risk areas. Good team habits include, amongst others constructive feedback, providing an open forum for debate and discussion without judgement and teams that are committed to a purpose.
What better way to develop teams, combining a team’s strengths to maximise their productivity, collaboration and performance. StrengthscopeTeam™ provides the team’s current behaviours and how these can be enhanced to help build a strong and sustainable team culture.
View StrengthscopeTeam™The foundation of our strengths-based products, Strengthscope® - identifying 24 unique strengths that energise us, giving each employee a picture of being their very best self. A team knowing their strengths, helps the entire team to function with high performance.
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View StrengthscopeTeam™"Strengthscope really plays a big part in the culture of the business and how we operate."
"Team morale is much improved, resulting in very significant improvement in long term global employee survey scores, including a 46% increase in the employee engagement score."
"I can see now how my strengths can make a difference, not just today, but for years to come."
"The assessment centre allowed the candidates to express themselves and show their qualities"
"The Strengthscope® tools are the ideal offering for us here at Channel 4 to support our individuals and teams go from good to great."
"Understanding how others see your strengths, especially when they are in overdrive, is useful too. The knowledge the programme gives you about strengths enables you to influence decisions and behaviour and gives you confidence that you can grow your role and progress through the organisation."
"Strengthscope® changed my life"
“Many thanks for a great two-day course. It was so well designed and you two worked seamlessly together. Great to meet a wide range of people and get to work with them in break out rooms on exercises. I think Strengthscope has a very good approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.”
“Focusing on strengths during appraisal discussions has a significant impact on employee performance, improving performance by over 36% on average.”
“Simply put, Strengthscope® is a great tool for self-development.”
“Strengthscope® raised our awareness of how we were behaving as a group, who had which strengths, and who we should be listening to at certain times when the group strength took over. this enabled us to see things differently and therefore solve problems better.”