In recent months, many organizations have been forced to evaluate their businesses. Many pivoted to deliver new services; many took the time to look inside the organization to “reboot” their teams and improve team performance.

As part of the foundation for building team performance, there are five key disciplines, highlighted in this article. Of the five, perhaps the most fundamental thing you want to evaluate is the team’s purpose or performance challenge. The team’s purpose should be challenging in a way that will require a new set of behaviors to achieve the goal. If the performance challenge is too simple or easily accomplished, teaming will not be required to make it happen. In other words, if the purpose can be accomplished by people in a work group acting as individuals, the purpose will not contribute to teaming. It has to be a shared, challenging purpose.

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