SELF-LEADERSHIP – Great teams are full of leaders at all levels who are present, self-aware, purpose-driven, and highly versatile. These leaders know who they are, how they show up, and are committed to being great team players. This enables strong relationships.
RELATIONSHIPS – Great teams recognize and proactively invest in building strong relationships. They care about each other as people and are committed to each other’s success. They are also open, transparent, and vulnerable with each other about what they are thinking and how they are feeling. Trust emerges from inside of these relationships.
MULTI-LEVEL TRUST – Great teams have deep character trust in the integrity and intentions of their teammates. They also trust the competency and delivery capabilities of the people that they depend on. Multi-level trust allows the team to be completely open about mistakes, issues, and other setbacks while assuming positive intentions behind each other’s actions. This kind of trust completes a team foundation that enables high-performance team behaviors, such as straight-talk communication.
STRAIGHT-TALK COMMUNICATION – Great teams master the art of talking straight with one another. Straight-talk communication begins with deep, bias-free and curious listening with a desire to learn and be persuaded. It follows with directly speaking with clarity about facts and perceptions while understanding the difference between them. Healthy team conflict and the willingness to confront issues head-on leads to faster, better decision-making and a high-degree of team clarity and alignment.
CLARITY & ALIGNMENT – Great teams excel at making decisions, crafting agreements, and forging alignment. They see the process of getting and staying aligned as the critical enabler of team performance. They are also deeply committed to healthy, purposeful debate, buying into team decisions, and communicating them widely to create broad organizational alignment. The commitment to and practice of team clarity is what unlocks accountability for performance and behavior.
ACCOUNTABILITY – Great teams get clear and aligned in order to unlock access to accountability for decisions, agreements, and behaviors. They operate knowing that issues will arise, and are committed to staying clean and clear with all teammates by addressing issues as soon as they come up. This kind of accountability drives team execution.
EXECUTION AS ONE – Great teams share high expectations for executional excellence and team health. They are passionate about delivering results together and are committed to working as one unit. They thrive on clarity and transparency with a team operating model and with a strong bias for action. Continuous team practice leads to the delivery of increasingly extraordinary results.
EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS – Great teams deliver results and share deep team pride. Beyond output, great teams develop people individually and collectively by challenging and supporting them to give their best. This creates a virtuous performance cycle that makes the team more capable and valuable over time. Engagement and value grow as the team connects their performance directly to their purpose. A team of people who do this each day has the OneTeam Advantage.