Continuing to Build Sustainable High Performance Teams

A recent post, The Keys to High Performance ‘Green’ Team Building, explores keys to stimulating eco awareness and employee passion in support of a company goal to become more environmentally sustainable. Describing high performance team building, networking, and office morale-building on another level, our sustainability consulting continues this exploration of performance management with new information.

The Harvard Business Review post, Turn Your Group into a True Team, asks the questions: What is a team and what makes it potentially such a valuable instrument of leadership? Are the people who work for you a real team?

HBR examines these larger questions by exploring the make-up of a team:

• Are we mutually committed to a compelling and worthwhile purpose?

• Do we know not just which task we must perform, but who will benefit from our work?

• Are we pursuing clear goals based on that purpose?

• Do we have plans in place for reaching them?

• Does everyone understand their roles and responsibilities?

• Are work processes clear?

• Do we share a set of values and beliefs about what we expect of each other and how we treat each other?

• Does everyone know how we're doing, both as a group and individually?

Our professional consulting has observed that the companies who excel organizationally, are those who expand and enhance traditional business structures. By leveraging the expanded eco awareness and passions already present within the organization, a company can promote daily engagement and lead high performance team building.