foundations of team leadership 1 purpose & goals & results

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Foundations of Team Leadership


Purpose & Goals & Results

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Open FTL

How Do Teams Succeed?

Effective Teams•Are Guided by Clear Goals & Purpose•Organize Themselves to Work Effectively (People Process & Tasks Process)•Focus On & Produce Desired Results (Monitor & Adjust)

Results

Tasks People

Goals

Results

Tasks People

Goals

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Results: Goal Achievement

Purpose: To Achieve Results

Operationalizing Focus

Goal Clarity

Goal Focus

Output

Outcomes

Goals Focus Team on Achieving Results

Transforming the Way We Work and Learn Together HRSLOFoundation of Team Leadership

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Common Approach.

• The focus on goals can serve as a productive force and a support to a common team approach. It can guide

• Productive communication (Re roadmaps and work)

• Useful conflict (Re variances & organization of work)

• Constructive behaviors in relation to organization of work and synergy within the team…)

Clear Purpose.

• Team Purpose is essential for creating team synergy as it sets the tone & aspiration for the team

Shared Vision .

• Ideally boundaries & scope of vision are set clearly enough to indicate direction

• But are set flexibly enough to allow the creative process required for commitment to develop (co-creation &/or elaboration of shared vision )

Designing Successful Teams: Creating Clear Purpose, Shared Vision, Common Approach & Actionable Goals

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Open FTL

Actionable Goals •Goals define team work-product and small wins

•Goals serve to align everyone to in a common effort

•Keep focus on Results

•Increased monitoring & evaluation relating to progress and outcomes

GOALS GOALS

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Research Shows: Setting Goals = 10 to 25%

Improvement in Performance

Setting Learning Goals

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GOALS GOALS

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S M A R T GOALS


GOALS

•Specific

•Measurable

•Actionable

•Realistic

•Time Bound

GOALS

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Getting Results Through Action Learning


Plan

Act

Reflect

Adjust

Individual Disciplined Inquiry

Team/Initiative Structured Inquiry

Engage Task

Observe/ Reflect

Reflect/Ponder

Plan

4 Planning:

What next? 1 Experie

nce:

E

ngage

task

3 Reflect:

Meaning?

2 Observe : What noticed?

Engage Task

Monitor/ Reflect

Adjust/Plan

Act

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Getting Results Through Action Learning

Effective Teams• Learn- to-Learn for Continuous Improvement

• Skilled at ongoing adaptation to situations by applying a wide-range of skills with which to tackle challenges• Hackman: ‘Individual members learn and are more satisfied

on those teams’ because ‘individuals can experience personal growth’

Key Involves Teams ‘Learning-to-Learn’

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Reflective/Action Learning in Work Context

Plan

Act

Reflect

Adjust

VISION

RESULTS

OUTPUTS

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Meetings

PLUS DELTA


Results

GOALS

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