How to Create a Strong & Productive Team in 2025
So, in 2024 I took a little time to interrogate key behaviors of leadership that are a natural cradle for high performance teams. And I was shocked, as you will be, that first, they are not many and second, they are things we can easily do without extra budgetary allocations.
So, my question to you is, do you want to see significant growth in productivity and wellness in your team 2025? If you do, it must transcend the desire level to commitment level.
Using Insight AI, and engaging more than 3700 professionals around the globe in 9 sectors including government, finance, manufacturing, property, legal, sports and environmental entities, I was able to pick 3 very simple behaviors that every team leader should attempt to adopt:
1. Know your team members and allow them to know you. What are their names and what is their story? The goal here, when done well, is to really connect better with your team, and understand how to deploy them based on interest, strengths and levels of commitment. Strategic deployment always achieves better results.
2. Ensure that they know each other. As a team leader, it still your responsibility to create harmony. The choir masters greatest challenge is to create the best symphony with talents available. Synergy and a systems-thinking mindset is created by leadership. Move people around, shift roles and even create new ones but in the end, let your team truly connect. When the team is well connected, the coach may assume their true role, at a strategic location outside the field. And when performing their roles effectively, you are able to step into the first level of (security intelligence term) “team fettering” which gives a team high dominance. (ask me about the 5 levels of resource fettering)
3. Finally, show your team that you care for them. There is no limit to what caring for another can achieve. From a positive shift in commitment to finding greater purpose and meaning in the work one does, results become the norm.
And over the years, I have always told my clients that the best way to become a high-performance team overnight is when each team member decides to support their colleagues to succeed. That kind of commitment comes from how well leadership shows that they care. And in care there is no short cut and pretense won’t work.
So simple. One, two and three. Feel free to get in touch and let me know how I can be of more help.