Having a self-managed team is every area leader’s dream, isn’t it? But we know that developing collaborators with different profiles to achieve the product objective is even more challenging.

Thinking about it, companies from different segments have started to look for high-performance employees, but it would be even more interesting if this were developed already in the employees who are part of your company, no and even?

To understand how high performance teams work and how they can help your company generate more results just keep reading this article.

 

After all, what is a high team performance?

High performance teams have high competence, expertise and commitment to goals – which are very clear to everyone involved. Generally, this type of team shares the same vision, values ​​and purpose, in addition they are always engaged and aligned with strategic objectives.

In this case, high performance is more than achieving good results, it is going beyond what is expected. High performance is directly linked to attitudes, sense of ownership and focus on delivering value.

A high performance team is motivated, has a very strong culture and is willing to improve, always looking for new challenges.

In truly digital and innovative organizations, we can call a high-performance team the Squad. In other words, a team composed of people of different abilities, united to create products or initiatives that generate value, from their ideation, through all development, to delivery and usage monitoring.

 

High Performance Team: Squad

Basically, the Squad is an organizational structure composed of people of different abilities, who have a very clear objective: to have more value delivery, working from end to end on that product.

Different from the traditional model of software creation and project management, Squads are multidisciplinary teams, with fewer silos, less hierarchy, more autonomy, focused on their principles and objectives, and who work to solve a problem or challenge within an organization.

O Spotify created this template to solve a challenge they had at the time and, as it became popular, many people started copying this one. people organization format.

If you really want to understand how this model of Spotify Squads came about, click here and see this great explanation from Rodrigo Pinto, our Agile Chapter Lead.

So a Squad is a High Performance team that many companies have already adopted along with the Scrum work model.

 

What are the characteristics of high performance teams

Well, when thinking about developing a high-performance team, you need to analyze what characteristics are needed for your challenge.

In other words, there is no standard model, but the one that best suits your company and the results that need to be achieved. Check out some characteristics that a Squad needs to have: 

 

Leadership

Having a well-defined leadership is essential for a high performance team, this need is due to the fact that team members can have no doubts about who to turn to when necessary nor who is the final decision.

It is also very important that the leaders are always not only encouraging but also inspiring the entire team.

 

Self-Management

Despite the very present leadership, self-management is also very important. The focus here is on each team member taking full responsibility for their roles.

It is important to emphasize that despite the leader, each person can manage their time, decisions and the way in which they carry out the tasks.

 

Multidisciplinarity

High performance teams are nothing less than a group of people with knowledge, cultures and backgrounds in different areas working in synergy towards a common result.

Having said that, multidisciplinarity is very important, as here the individual skills complement each other making everyone collaborate to achieve the best results.

 

Anticipation

Projecting what’s to come and thinking ahead is a strong characteristic of high-performance teams. This behavior helps to prevent problems and situations that could compromise the performance of the team as a whole.

 

Assertive Communication

Knowing how to communicate is extremely important. High performance team members understand that assertive and efficient communication impacts the bottom line.

In this type of team, periodic meetings are held to monitor, encourage the exchange of experiences and feedback. Internal communication is valued!

 

Collaboration

For a team to achieve high performance, it is essential that there is collaboration between members.

Instead of each one closing in and focusing only on their tasks, here the members help each other and, in a collaborative and integrated way, they are able to deliver more consistent work.

Once you have verified which of these characteristics need improvement in your team, develop a training plan.

 

Differentiated Mindset

As already said, to create a high-performance team you need to change the mindset of your company, managers and team.

 

Structuring the work environment for an innovative atmosphere does not mean taking inspiration from trends in Silicon Valley companies and putting ping pong in your company’s common area.

We need to focus on a more physical aspect, such as the structure of the tables, making employees work closer, encouraging people to leave the physical space of the company to focus on resolution of the problem.

But yes, the focus remains on innovation!

And for that, you need to change your mindset and forget about the idea that directors are in separate and isolated rooms, you need to have these people always in an easily accessible place for all collaborators.

Important: In addition to these characteristics, the manager or area leader needs to understand the employee and encourage them to be a high-performance person. But how to do this? Here are some tips.

• Provide courses and certifications so that everyone can learn about all the techniques your team needs;
• Encourage teamwork, hold meetings, dynamics, etc;
• Create challenging goals, make your collaborators step out of self-indulgence and face new everyday challenges;
• Trust the professional and give them autonomy to resolve and bring solutions to conflicts;

 

How to build a High Performance team?

At Agile.Inc we listen to our employees and give them full autonomy to bring ideas and new concepts so that the company’s objective is achieved.

Our High Performance teams are divided by clients and modulated according to the client’s needs. We listen to our customers and with that we bring the best qualities of different people so that the customer’s pains are resolved.

We have also developed knowledge trails consisting of training and certifications so that employees can follow with new work tools and thus achieve their goals.

Count on us at Agile.Inc and talk to one of our professionals so we can help you build your High Performance team