What it takes to build high performing teams
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The document discusses what it takes to build high performing teams. It states that high performing teams are highly focused on their goals and achieve superior business results. Some key factors for building high performing teams include assembling the right people who have passion for their work and are intrinsically motivated, bringing the work to the team so they have ownership rather than working individually, discovering the deeper meaning and purpose in their work to stay motivated, creating an environment where they can focus in a state of "flow" without interruptions, and encouraging failure to allow for creativity and innovation.
What it takes to build high performing teams
- 2. ABOUT ME • Doing Agile since 2007 • Being Agile – WIP • CEO – Agile Accompli • VP of Engineering – Alegion • President – Agile AusEn
- 4. Team
- 7. The Drill
- 8. THE DRILL – 10 MINUTES • Split into groups • Think of the best team with which you’ve ever worked • Write down key factors that made that team so good, one per sEcky – People, company, culture, environment, process, work, intangibles, etc. • Share and discuss within your team • Dot vote and select top 3 factors
- 14. WHO ARE THOSE AMAZING PEOPLE? • They have passion for their cra? • They are impaAent and tolerant • They are curious • They have grit • They are learners and teachers • They collaborate • They are intrinsically moAvated • They are diverse
- 24. COST OF INTERRUPTIONS • Errors double aeer an interrupEon of only 2.8- seconds • On average, aeer one interrupEon: – 25 minutes needed to refocus – 15 minutes needed to regain “flow” – Total to regain flow = 40 minutes per interrupEon • InterrupEons can have serious consequences in some fields
- 25. HOW TO STAY IN THE ZONE? • MeeEngs • War Room • “Sterile Cockpit” • Bouncer • WFH
- 27. WHY IS IT OK TO FAIL? • What God looks like • CreaEvity is a messy process • Rails not rules • Autonomy and ownership • Kaizen
- 28. SUMMARY • Assemble the Right People • Bring the Work to the Team • Discover the Meaning in Work • Create the Zone • Encourage Failure
- 29. RESOURCES • Why It's Time to Forget the Pecking Order • Genng to 10x (Results) • The Sterile Cockpit • Great Teams Are About PersonaliEes, Not Just Skills • Do Schools Kill CreaEvity? • The Unexpected Benefit of CelebraEng Failure
- 30. QUESTIONS?