EXPLORE THE TOOLS
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You can license the following self-help tools to accelerate your team's performance. These are based on the three key focus areas that build high performing teams.
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Leadership
New Leader Integration
This tool is designed to help new team leaders build relationships with team members. It accelerates team productivity by clarifying expectations and setting up norms that support effective communication and an open exchange of information.
Team Leader Self-Assessment and Action Plan
Effective leadership is critical to the overall performance and success of a team. This Team Leader Self-Assessment allows a team leader to get insights into his or her team leadership strengths and weaknesses, and identify actions for improvement.
Team Leadership Styles That Get Results
Research indicates that team leader behavior has the strongest and most direct effect on team member motivation and engagement. This tool is intended to highlight the six leadership styles that top performers use.
Coaching Skills
Research shows that one of the most useful roles of a team leader is that of coach. This tool presents a simple, but highly effective coaching method that any team leader can easily adopt.
Empowering Others
The growing trend in fast-paced competitive organizations is toward building empowered employees and teams. This tool presents an overview of empowerment and methods for sharing decision-making.
Building Emotional & Social Intelligence
Because human behavior is not predominantly rational, effective leadership and teamwork require emotional and social Intelligence (E&SI). This tool includes a quick self-assessment for determining one's current level of E&SI.
What We Do As A Team
High Performing Teams Overview
The High Performing Teams Overview is a PowerPoint presentation that outlines the importance of organizations investing the time, money, and resources necessary to build high performing teams. In addition, this overview highlights Legacy Team's key research-based insights: the tactics top performing teams use to build and sustain high levels of trust, cooperation and performance.
Team Chartering
A team charter is a document that formally authorizes the existence of a team and communicates a project's scope, objectives, and overall approach to key stakeholders. The charter helps team members and stakeholders understand the team's purpose, goals, roles and responsibilities, and operating guidelines. This tool provides a template and guidelines for developing a team charter.
Developing A Shared Vision
Developing an inspiring vision can help align team members, increase motivation, and build commitment. This tool helps teams craft a compelling vision.
SWOT Analysis
A SWOT analysis enables a team to develop practical, high-impact strategic actions to increase the likelihood of reaching its goals and objectives.
Developing Goals and Objectives
Research indicates that the best teams have a relentless concern with aligning team goals and objectives with those of the business.
Team Kick-off Meeting
Once the team's charter is finalized and most team members have joined, the team leader should organize a launch meeting.
Clarifying Roles & Responsibilities
To create high levels of team trust and collaboration, it is critical for team members to fully understand their role and the roles of other members.
RACI
RACI is a responsibility charting tool that can be used to help team members document key processes as well as clarify roles and responsibilities.
Clarifying Interdependencies
The highest performing teams are comprised of members who support one another's goal achievement.
Creating Team Norms
All teams need operating norms that define the rules or codes of conduct to which team members will agree to adhere.
Team Decision Making
Teams make better decisions than individuals when they effectively tap into the diverse perspectives, knowledge and experience of their members.
Meeting Management
Effective meetings are critical to team success. This tool provides guidelines for planning and conducting productive team meetings.
Effective Virtual Teaming
Virtual teamwork provides many benefits but creates challenges for team members and team leaders who are not used to working and leading virtually. Research shows that virtual teams can outperform "co-located" teams if team members make the effort to build good working relationships and if team leaders recognize the extra effort required to keep all team members informed and connected. To that end, this tool provides two categories of information pertinent to effective virtual teaming: (1) setting up a virtual team for success, and (2) communicating effectively on virtual teams.
Team Communications Plan
Effective communication is critical to team success. This tool helps teams develop a communications plan that ensures the right information gets to the right people at the right time.
New Team Member Assimilation
Assimilating a new person onto a team in the middle of a project, or once a team is up and running can be very challenging. There is often a lot of information about the science or technology that one needs to absorb. A new member must also spend time learning about the project, the team leader's expectations, the other members on the team, the team's ad hoc members, and the team's key stakeholders. That is a lot of learning to absorb! This tool provides teams and team leaders with some guidance to help assimilate new team members. It is intended to reduce their learning curves, and increase their speed to productivity and high performance.
Team Contact List
Clear communication is the glue that keeps teams together. This simple tool is designed to capture important contact information about team members, helping the team communicate more effectively.
How We Work Together
Valuing Each Other
Research indicates that members of top performing teams have a strong desire and motivation to build relationships. This tool can be used in scenarios when conflict and tensions negatively impact effective work habits.
Understanding Team Member Work Styles
Research on team effectiveness emphasizes the link between understanding team member preferences and behavior, and team performance.
Getting to Know One Another
Research shows that top performing teams spend time getting to know one another to learn about each other's work and educational background, interests, needs, concerns, values, cultural biases, strengths, weaknesses, hot buttons, teamwork preferences, and more.
Team Icebreakers
Research indicates that members of top performing teams have a strong desire and motivation to build relationships. Team icebreakers can be used as a fun way to keep members motivated throughout the lifecycle of their team.
Enhancing Team Cooperation and Collaboration
Research indicates that team members who spend time getting to know one another – their goals, challenges, work preferences, strengths, weaknesses – work more effectively together.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback helps team members understand how their behaviors or attitudes are positively and negatively impacting the effectiveness of the team and their relationships with other team members.
Demonstrating Caring and Respect
Research shows that trust is more common in teams in which members demonstrate support, care, and respect for each other.
Managing Conflict
Current research indicates that team conflicts are normal and can be beneficial and productive. This tool contains activities that can help a team develop a customized conflict management plan.
Understanding Diverse Cultural Values and Expectations
Businesses cannot succeed in the global economy if members of their cross-cultural teams do not understand or appreciate each other's cultural differences and expectations.
Conducting a Lessons Learned Session
High performing teams periodically stop to reflect upon and learn from their successes and shortcomings as part of continuous improvement.
Proactive Problem Solving
Research shows that high performing teams have a strong bias toward addressing problems, obstacles, and conflicts in a proactive and decisive manner.
Assessing and Improving Team Meetings
Team meetings are important and an essential part of building a team and achieving the team's objectives.
Understanding Your Role as a Team Member
It is imperative that team members are skilled at the behaviors that matter most to team performance.
Tracking Team Moods and Emotions
Team mood has a significant impact on performance. This tool helps teams track and manage their collective emotional state.
Stakeholder Management
Research indicates that top performing teams work hard to gain a thorough understanding of the needs and concerns of their stakeholders.
Effective Influencing
The style of doing business today is increasingly cross-functional and team-based. Critical decisions are often made through influence, not directive commands.
Collaborating Across Teams
To create high levels of cooperation and collaboration across teams, it is critical for each team to understand its role and the role of the other team in the work that needs to get done.