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Are You Smarter Than Your Team?

Team success is a key element in organisational development.  Deciding on your teams and making sure that you have a good balance and actively manage the lifecycle is critical to success, yet an over-reliance on teams can prove damaging.

Much study has gone into how to make teams effective, and now recent research shows that there are elements of business activity that teams are just not very good at, regardless of how well thought out the team structure is.  For those of you who have just come out of a meeting, you perhaps won’t be surprised to learn that most teams spend excessive time talking through things they already know and not enough on new information. 

Teams tend to be happy to hand over responsibility for decision making, and if they can’t hand it to an individual, handing it to the team to avoid personal responsibility will do.

Groups are demonstrated to be particularly good at examining causes behind problems, gathering lots of options and ranking the importance of elements, yet significantly less so at deciding there’s a problem, deciding what to do about it and implementing a decision.

Make sure you’re making the best of your teams, but also the best of your decisive leaders.  Contact:

Claudine McClean
T: 01789 734333
E: claudinem@predaptive.com