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Punchy, actionable insights and tips to make the life of the team leader a breeze.
[00:00:00] Pia: Clarity for a team can be a challenge to nail down, particularly when there's internal change, external challenges, and even chaos, which seems to make it a moving target. It's easy enough to fall back onto individual KPIs and relegate the importance of team goals. But high-performing teams buck this trend and show a specific discipline to make success a shared experience by developing and reviewing a collective goal and plan. The Squadify global data proves that indeed these teams have clarity at a whole new level. I'm Pia.
[00:00:35] Dan: and I'm Dan, and this is Squadify Connects. A team goal is not simply a sum of its team members' KPIs. That's the mindset of a Tino, a team in name only, and it puts up to 20% of performance outcomes at risk. Organizations may have a high level goal, be it financial or a vision, but it's in the granular level of the team plan and the interdependency of team roles to achieve it, that the real magic happens.
[00:01:02] Pia: Squadify global data looks at what teams rank as important, as well as what they rank as currently present. The clear goal is ranked fifth in terms of important, but the detailed clear measures is only ranked 18th, and short term priorities are ranked at 28th, so the more granular the importance decreases.
[00:01:26] Dan: The good news is that teams that are focused on improving this clarity across the team and looked at the planning act actively at all operational levels, find they deliver improved results. Squadify team Tracker also are specific questions about the team's clear plan to achieve the goal and the roles within the team to achieve it.
[00:01:46] Pia: When teams focused on bringing together the collective input of the team to create the plan to update and review it, and also look at the interdependency of the roles to achieve it, they improved these clarity scores by nearly 12% and increase their execution by 7%, and in many cases, In under 90 days. It also raised the confidence levels to achieve the broader goal and achieve the vision by over 7% too.
[00:02:15] Dan: Many challenges in a team dynamic shopping climate, but our mantra of look left first, which means that clarity is the first action often to be taken by a team. You can achieve this through a simple clarity on a page exercise, working through it together to determine the team's why your purpose, your what, your goal and your how, your strategy, your plan, and your roles that will get you there. With clear metrics in a way that makes the direction translatable to each individual member and is also owned collectively as a team. The very act of planning this together creates buy-in inclusion and also a diversity of perspective.
[00:02:56] Pia: There's often a big difference in the clarity of information that we communicate and the actual understanding of what others make of it with speed of business, hybrid working and economic turbulence. Clarity within teams can be an exercise that is relegated on the excuse of business teams for back on their individual KPIs, and in doing so, lean out leaders that make inclusive team.
[00:03:22] Planning a in a collaborative exercise, find that levels of accountability and ownership rise and that the team more naturally leans in with the demonstrable improvement in performance.