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Ingredients of a Winning Team Recipe
August 1, 2007
By Sharon Birkman Fink
The factors most crucial to team success
Gaining the competitive edge in today’s global market requires building a team where the strengths of each team member is focused in a collaborative effort to succeed. How a team works as a whole – its power as the sum of its parts -- is what ultimately determines success, no matter how capable and impressive its individual contributors are.
Managers or recruiters tasked with putting together teams inside a business may think they know what object skill sets they are seeking. However, without adequate knowledge of the potential team members’ communications skills and abilities to work inside the confines of a focused unit -- it is impossible to select a group of individuals who can work together effectively as a group.
The rewards for creating such focused and effective teams are great. A well-designed and coordinated team that communicates and collaborates efficiently -- and usefully -- typically achieves better results than skilled individuals working alone or in parallel.
Findings from a survey conducted by Birkman International in January 2007 of more than 160 Birkman Method consultants and clients who regularly work with teams has yielded an interesting set of characteristics for building better teams from available human capital resources. The reported characteristics are interesting in terms of what is considered vital, but also for what is not.
Top ten focus areas for building a successful team
Survey respondents were asked about the factors that most affect the teams they work with. They were then asked to rate how often -- and to what extent -- these factors influenced their teams. Respondents’ answers were based on a one to five scale, with one being the least important and five being the most important. Communication within a team is considered the most significant factor in a team’s success. The other highly-rated team effectiveness factors also all ultimately impact communication in some way.
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