How to Build and Manage a High-performing Team?

How to Build and Manage a High-performing Team?

To maintain the competitive advantage of your organization, high-performing teams are very crucial. These teams constantly show high levels of collaboration and innovation to help your organization attain success. In order to get these high-performing teams, you need to know how to create the ‘Right Mix’ of skills in your project.

The competency of the members of your team can be broken down into the following four dimensions:

Task Skills: The employee’s ability to perform the basics of his position.
Task Management Skills: Ability to plan, prepare, organize and self-manage his performance in a role.
Contingency Management Skills: To know what to do ‘when things go wrong’
Environment Skills: Ability to perform his role within the environment provided to him by the organization.

Now you would be thinking, how to create the right combination of skills and abilities for your project and manage a high-performing team?

Here are the steps to build a high-performing team for in your project and manage it:

Define whom you need

Getting the right people in the room is the first step to form a high-performing team. A seasoned sales manager at a big company might be great for a 1,000 person organisation but be a huge disaster for a startup. It is very important that you understand the exact requirement of skills and experience for your project.

Partner with a staffing agency

It’s not easy to get the right talent for your project on your own in a week or so. It’s a mammoth task for any project head and includes risks too. Partnering with a staffing agency can do the job for you. Modern staffing agencies provide you access to a global talent pool, which makes it easy for you to cherry-pick the ones your project needs.

Set roles and responsibilities

Post-induction of members into your team, let each and every member have a thorough understanding of their roles and deliverables. There should be no room for ambiguity if you want your team to perform at peak. Whenever a member of the team tries to step on other’s toes, it impacts the entire team’s performance adversely.

Set measurable goals

Having clear, realistic and measurable goals and tracking the developments periodically is what world-class teams do to keep track of the performance of their team members. Team of every business should adopt this practice to meet their goals faster.

Over-communicate

A tremendous focus should be laid on communication. Team leads should always put extra effort into ensuring that each member of the team thoroughly understands the team’s strategic direction and his role. Communication should always be both verbal and written.

Hold each team member accountable

For delivering true results, tough teams hold each other accountable. To ensure that your team is accountable for deliverables, aligned on objectives and transparent take status updates on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

Conclusion

Whichever business you are into and how variable your work processes and employees are, it can’t be denied that your employees need to have the right mix of knowledge and skills to perform their tasks correctly. The keys to have a high-performing team and faster success of your project are to keep yourself and your team focused on goals and follow the above mentioned steps while building the team.