building high-performing teams at work

Building High-Performing Teams Now

Carl DunckerManagement Training

Building High-Performing Teams As a manager, few endeavours are as essential as building high-performing teams. Whether you’re a seasoned line manager or an up-and-coming executive, the success of your career hinges on your team’s performance. After all, it is the combined efforts of your team members that will help you achieve your goals, meet deadlines, and exceed expectations. To unlock the full potential of your team, it’s crucial to understand and apply proven strategies for team development. In this blog post, we will delve into the famous Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development model, which has served as a beacon for leaders aiming to transform their groups into cohesive and productive units. By the end of this exploration, you’ll have the …

Belbin Team Roles

Carl DunckerManagement Training

This article endeavours to provide a detailed insight into the nine team roles Meredith Belbin believed are crucial for a team to develop and more forward. The following team development model helps you greatly in creating a balanced team, as it can be ensured that each strength is covered by just one employee, so everyone is contributing. The team may have as many as nine members, or as little as three of four, as long as each of these roles and skills are covered: 1) Plant – Got the name as one is ‘planted’ in each team. They tend to be highly creative and unorthodox, so come to the fore when solving puzzles. However, they can be forgetful or easily distracted. 2) …

Team Development

Carl DunckerLeadership Courses

This is an article which aims to give you a working knowledge of team development and help you understand how important it could be for your organisation, as well as giving you places to look if you decide to incorporate this into your company. Team development itself is fairly self explanatory: the enhancement of the effectiveness of work groups through the use of different strategies and techniques. However, the complicated part is being able to successfully implement these structures into your employees and teams and subsequently improve performance and efficiency in the workplace. One of the main branches of team development is the process of team building. Relationships between employees and employers are not the only ones which should be …

Teambuilding Strategies

Carl DunckerLeadership Courses, Management Training

This article aims to provide you with a mix of expert insight and example structures to allow you to know what to do and where to look when your organisation is in need of teambuilding strategies and exercises. Team building consists of a wide variety of tasks to enhance existing skills and implement new ones in team members. Specific tasks can be chosen to ensure the group get the most out of the experience. It is helpful for the group to be told which specific needs will be addressed in each task they carry out as this will allow them to see how what they discover about themselves and each other can be applied to the business world. For example, …

Tuckman’s Team Development Model

Carl DunckerIn-house Training Courses, Management Training

This article aims to inform you how a structured model for team development in the form of Tuckman’s four stages can be implemented and become an extremely useful process in your organisation. In 1965, Bruce Tuckman created the fours stages of development – forming, storming, norming and performing. By following this model, it is proved that, through a scheme of increasing responsibility and team building, business groups can develop sufficiently to meet goals in an efficient manner. The process begins with stage one, forming. At this early point, the team highly depends on its leader to provide team aims. They must apply a lot of guidance and direction to the group as the team has not bonded massively at this …