Wednesday 23 July 2014

by Tony Gattari
A high performance business must have a high performance team. There are twelve outstanding characteristics that are directly related to a top performing business team. Apply the lessons from each of these characteristics and watch your business soar to new heights!
1.    Common goal

This is your purpose and your mission. It needs to inspire people. It's got to be very clear.
2.    Winning culture

What is meant by a "winning culture"? This is your code of culture. People buy into values and what they represent. Culture will include excellence, enthusiasm and team work. You must eliminate those on your team who do not embrace your business' culture. Many times your worst enemy is from within. That enemy is negativity. Having a winning culture fights against negativity.
3.    Live the culture

Hypocrisy will work against you. What happens when you tell me about the winning culture but you don't live it yourself?
4.    100% involvement from everyone

Picture a sporting match. As you ready yourself to enter the grounds, you turn to the coach and say you are not going to give more than 60% today. Will the coach let you play? Absolutely not! You are either on or off. There is no in-between.
5.    Grow and support your stars

Out in the world there is an insane business model that states that you must treat everyone on your team the same way. That is a load of baloney. If you do not look after your best, your best will leave. People who are brilliant, but who feel unloved and un-praised, will leave and the ones that you don't want will be the ones who stay. Everybody brings different value to the business and you must reward people for their value. Reward them not in how much time they spend at work, but on their value to your business.
6.    Flat salaries breed flat performances

The greatest model that I've seen - and the one that works - is that you don't pay people on movement, you pay them on achievement. Pay an employee a flat salary and they will only do as much as they need to do. There is no reason to go for the gold. There is nothing in it for them. They will only do enough to maintain their position.
7.    Keep your incentive program simple

You need to develop an incentive program based on this simple philosophy - reward people for the things you want them to do and penalise them for the things you don't want them to do. It is extremely important to keep your incentive programs simple. If people cannot understand it, if they cannot associate how much they will get from it, then they will not do it. Confusion and over complication is the enemy of business communication.
8.    Support the people who take the risks

The risk takers are the ones who break the game, aren't they? It's the people who are inherent risk takers that need to be supported. But what to do most organisations do? They try to destroy them. Once they make a mistake, what do they do? They berate them and say "Never do that again!". Then the leadership complains that their people are not taking any entrepreneurial risks anymore. Yes, correct people when they make a mistake, but do not destroy their self-worth in the process.
9.    Train your team in all areas

Sounds good, but then businesses say "What happens if after I train them they leave?". This is not a good question. A good question is: "What happens if you don't train them and they stay?". Training is a matter of show and tell, of dogged, determined role playing until we get it right. Don't just hand them a manual and leave. They haven't understood anything. They need to practice before they perform.
10.    Give people clear job descriptions, roles and duties

In many organisations, people are trying to do their best, but no one has told them what their best is. Business owners say "I hope Mary never leaves. She is a winner on our team". But then you do not even know what Mary does. Be absolutely clear when you employ people. How can you measure performance if you cannot test it? It is the whole principle of testing and measuring that needs to be a permanent principle in any business.
11.    Hire on attitude, not on skill

The key to building a championship team is to hire people that already have passion and heart, not just a good resume. Hire on attitude and try not to hire on skill. What you are looking for is not their mind, but rather does their values and mind fall within the culture and values of your company? If you can align their attitude with your culture, we will have an amazingly profitable marriage.
12.    To attract the best, you must be attractive

In any business, in order to attract the best, you actually have to become attractive. Your attraction is not based on your size, but your vision and your purpose. When you become attractive, you attract those people. It is a principle of life as well as a principle of business.

Source:http://www.iidmglobal.com

51 comments:

  1. A high performance business team must possess outstanding characteristics that are related to a top performing business which are:common goal,winning culture,live the culture e.t.c.if these are put together, an organisation would have a good performing team

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  2. Every of the team members must put in their best,they should not just put everything on the team leader.They are to join hands and work together inorder to achieve Common goal.By;Oduola Adekemi Blessing

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  3. For a better growth of an organization there is need for a high performance of a team,their primary goal is to achieve the objective of an organization there should be a motivation to the team and work should be delegated to each of the team member .there should fully be cooperation between the team leader and it's team. By;adeleke basirat adejoke

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  4. The business atmosphere should be happy. Happy Workers brings their best to the table and tardiness will by the way be eliminated which could aswell be a detriment to the success of a high performance team.

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  5. You must have the ability to inspire and motivate others.

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  6. when their is ability to inpire and their is co-operative between the team and also hire some attude group, it wiil lead to success of performance team

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  7. Every commitment set aside for the growth of a business shouldn't be bias, there shouldn't be preferential interest and they need to have close relationship with there members

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  8. Team behavious and value, strong team performances challenging and aupportive team environment cohessive team identify.By: Olayiwola Timileyin Sodeeq.

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  9. Choosing a high performance team must not be solely based on just a good resume but the attitude towards the job or project must be used as a yardstick in hiring.
    The language used is concise

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  11. A formal writting using conversational style of writting,with perfect word choice, sentence fluency and accurate punctuations.OJETUNDE SODIQ OLAYEMI

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  12. Motivation enhance high performance

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  13. Motivation enhance high performance of an organization . OLANREWAJU KAZEEM DELE

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  14. For team to perform effectively
    The team must be handled by an effective manager who knows how to motivate others
    The word used are simple
    FATADE NATHANIEL T

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  15. Having a high performance team in a society,organisation is the duty of a good manager who also serve as a leader.the manager has some attribute such as a supportet,motivator,etc

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  16. Motivation and persuasive method apply to an organisational staff is the best key to increase their high level of production and performance.
    By Busari kehinde Habeeb

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  17. A leader of any organization must know how to be persuasive. Motivate the workers to to work enthusiastically in order to have a good result.

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  18. there is need for a high performance of a team,their primary goal is to achieve the objective of an organization there should be a motivation to the team and work should be delegated to each of the team member .there should fully be cooperation between the team leader and it's team

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  19. The statement used are optimistic as if the team is winning already.goal followers and confidence are involve.

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  20. This article will help to build strong team for the success of a business organization. Eluyemi Elizabeth

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  21. This is a good write up written in a technical style with conversational style of writting. This will go a long way in achieving the organisational goal likewise that of the clients Tokede Ayobami

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  22. For an organization to develop on a high speed they must motivate their worker by given them training, clear job description roles and duties. By: AWOTONA OLUWATOYIN DORCAS

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  23. High performance organization must have a high and motivated working team, which theu must have carry their SWOT Analysis in the area of their operation. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threat. KAREEM KEHINDE SUBOMI

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  24. Exposure to a better form of high performance. Adeduntan Blessing Tinuade

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  25. To have high performance team in management person needs to introducing snergy.If you wanted to achieve your goal. Oladapo,Akolawole Jeleel

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  26. An excellent article with pragmatic illustrations that could improve business performance. The writing style is professional.

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  27. Team work will always win.
    Nice work ER

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  28. Before your team can have the highest performance, everybody in the team must bring out their best to achieve a common goal.

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  29. Every team must a common goal, winning culture, having people with passion who their best interest at heart and good attitude. Hire on attitude and try
    not to hire on skill.

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  30. In any business, in order to attract the best, you
    actually have to become attractive. Your
    attraction is not based on your size, but your
    vision and your purpose. When you become
    attractive, you attract those people. It is a
    principle of life as well as a principle of business. Okhogbe hope

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  31. In any organisation , workers should be motivated in all levels, so that to bring out the best in them. TAJUDEEN OLANREWAJU SHERIFF

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  32. A high performance business must have a high performance team.............olatilewa tairu olatoye

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  33. Group interaction is necessary for the progress of a team

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  34. A leader of any organization must know
    how to be persuasive. Motivate the
    workers to to work enthusiastically in
    order to have a good result.
    Salau kazeem Ayobami.

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  35. A high performance business team requires a common goal and hypocrisy must be avoided. People who take risk must also be supported. OYETUNJI IKEOLUWA EYITAYO

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  36. In order to develop a high performance team, incentives programmes must be kept by rewarding people for the things you want them to do and penalise them for the things you don't want them to do. ADELOKUN DARE BABATUNDE

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  37. In order to develop a high performance team, incentives programmes must be kept by rewarding people for the things you want them to do and penalise them for the things you don't want them to do. ADELOKUN DARE BABATUNDE

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  38. A high performance business team requires a common goal and hypocrisy must be avoided. People who take risk must also be supported. OYETUNJI IKEOLUWA EYITAYO

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  39. You must have the ability to inspire and motivate other. Ladigbolu blessing kemi

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  40. The ability to work as team is what the writer is explaining to achieve the organizational set goals.

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  41. The characterisitics that a team must possess by a team, they must have the ability to set,inspire and achieve goals which is the objectives of the business.
    Oluyomi Ebenezer Adedotun

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  42. TEAM simply means Together Everyone Achieves More. ADEGOKE MATTHEW

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  43. In a team, it's good for members to motivate each other. Ayeni Ifeoluwa Victoria

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  44. Every management must be optimistic(Think positively)about the Organisation.

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  45. Any organisation must plan and control there resources.
    RAHEEM BASIRAT YETUNDE

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  46. For a team to perform effectiveness,it must have a good management .Abisola Bukola

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  47. Setting of common goals,effective communication and delegation of duties will produce a high performance team

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  48. A formal writting using conversational style of
    writting,with perfect word choice, sentence fluency
    and accurate punctuations.
    ADEYEMO SAMSON OPEOLUWA

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  49. There must also be effective decision. making and clear communication .. OKE BUSAYO

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