Clarity of roles within a team
February 12, 2025
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High-Performance Teams as we all know can be a blessing for an organization, as such teams play a crucial role in boosting organizational productivity and growth by meeting challenging outcomes.
But, such teams are also faced with several barriers or challenges which act as impediments in their journey of excellence. These barriers are caused due to the differences in the attitude, approaches, professional aspirations, roles, qualification and experience backgrounds of the team members.
The members of High-Performance teams under normal circumstances enjoy a great chemistry which gets demonstrated through their actions, work outcomes, professional relationship and the combined goals which they achieve.
The foundation pillars of an High-Performance team are mutual trust and confidence, open communication and a collaborative approach. But differences do occur amongst the team members which is resolved at an individual level or with the intervention of the leader.
In the absence of right system, structure, management support, leadership and performance management system in place, high-performance teams will not be able to come up with the best results. Let us analyse some of the issues which the High-Performance teams are usually faced with:
The team members may struggle with individual disputes, role conflicts, disputes amongst the team members or may have difference on various policy matters of the organization, which should be addressed timely with effective solutions.
Lack of trust can be a major barrier in the path of success of high-performance teams as the members will fail to work towards a single purpose and will give importance to individual concerns. In the absence of trust, team efficiency, productivity, quality and probability will be adversely affected.
Feedback act as the guiding framework for the team members to perform better, learn from their mistakes and to avoid such mistakes in future. In the absence of an effective feedback framework, the teams will fail to deliver optimal results and act upon their performance related loopholes with effective solutions.
High-Performance teams are required to be nurtured, facilitated and require continuous support as well as the guidance of an able leader who can motivate the team members to continuously exceed the expectations and achieve challenging results. For such teams to prosper and deliver the intended goals, the members of the teams should be made to feel that their presence and contributions are valued, acknowledged and will be rewarded appropriately. The members should have a perception that they are treated more than just employees by their management and also that they can expect due justice for their contributions at work.
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