Team Cultures
Article | Accountability Insights
Is your team’s culture working for or against you? In other words, is your team’s culture facilitating or hindering your ability to achieve your team’s desired results? Answer the following questions to find out:
| • | Is your current team culture unable to produce the results you’ve promised? | |
| • | Will your current team culture have difficulty delivering the results you need in the future? | |
| • | Are there ways of thinking and acting that your team members need to stop exhibiting in order to achieve the desired team results? | |
| • | Are there ways of thinking and acting that your team members need to start demonstrating in order to achieve the desired team results? | |
| • | Are the right experiences, beliefs, and actions being hindered or impeded by your current team culture? |
Regardless of whether your team’s culture came about as a result of methodical effort or muddled default, if you answered “Yes” to three or more of the above questions, you need to begin shifting the way your people think and act, now, rather than later. Changing your team’s culture is not an option it’s an imperative.
A team’s culture determines its results, and the results a team wants to achieve should always determine its culture. Culture depends on results and results depend on culture. You can build a team culture around any set of desired results: customer satisfaction, sales growth, product innovation, technological excellence, ease of order fulfillment, best-in-class quality, talent development, exceptional analysis and timely reporting, just to name a few. Once the target results are clear, you should move quickly to create a culture that produces the necessary experiences, beliefs, and actions to achieve those results.
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