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Team Dynamics & Effectiveness. Putting theory into practice – continued. Karen Summers. Senior Consultant Career Transition Specialist Strathdee Resourcing Partnership. Teams. Employee Lifecycle. How Can I Understand Team Dynamics?. Diagnostics Personality questionnaires
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Team Dynamics & Effectiveness Putting theory into practice – continued
Karen Summers • Senior Consultant • Career Transition Specialist • Strathdee Resourcing Partnership
How Can I Understand Team Dynamics? • Diagnostics • Personality questionnaires • Team Strengths Audit • Observation of team behaviours e.g. content or discourse analysis • 360° Feedback • Organisational Culture Survey
How Can I Understand Team Effectiveness? • Performance management metrics • Client and stakeholder feedback • Team perceptions • Well-being measures • Turnover statistics • Benchmarking results • Best practice analysis
Improving Team Dynamics & Effectiveness Attraction Challenges • Achieving diversity if required • Understanding your team’s proposition • Overcoming legacy perceptions Suggestions • Use Kliem and Anderson – Project Managers • Explorer • Coordinator • Driver • Administrator • Goffee & Jones – Cultural model used to map and mould organisational culture • Use Appreciative Inquiry • Co-create company internal & external message
Improving Team Dynamics & Effectiveness Coaching & Development Challenges • Equitable Talent Management • Motivating entrepreneurs & mavericks • Expectation that the organisation will deliver Suggestions • Hirsch & Rothwell / Ulrich • Hackman • Real Team • Enabling Structure • Compelling Direction • Supportive Organisational Context • Expert Coaching • Team based coaching • Project leadership devolution • Respecting unique contributions • Empowerment through coaching culture
Improving Team Dynamics & Effectiveness Transition Challenges • Loss of direction /destabilisation • Development gaps • Morale – productivity and performance Suggestions • Bridges Model workshop to address loss. Coaching technique – Timeline • Tuckman – 5 team development phases • Reconnect with ‘survivors’ needs • Team-event focussed on ways to improve team effectiveness and performance • Change as infrequently as possible
Top Tips • Keep evaluating and intervening - be dynamic • Empower the team • Use supporters • Occupational Psychologist • www.goodpractice.com
Providing… Retained Executive and Niche Search Coaching & Mentoring Career Transitions expertise …to the global Oil and Gas industry
Our People • Donald Strathdee – Principal Consultant • Kathryn Wilson – Senior Research Consultant • Karen Summers – Senior Consultant