High Performance Team Infographics
At RallyBright we’re focused on helping managers become better leaders and building better teams. A big part of this is sharing our findings related to what drives team performance and how to improve team relationships and values.
Below you’ll find a running repository of the infographics we’re creating to share our insights around building high performance teams:
Team Measurement:
The 5 Building Blocks of Resilient Teams
For any team to succeed, it needs a strong foundation of resilience. The good news is that the building blocks of team resilience are learnable and measurable.
Team Dynamics, Communications, Burnout / Remote Work Challenges & Opportunities:
All things related to leading the “people” part of teams including relationships, communications, and burn-out. As the world of work has shifted, many of these focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of remote work.
How to Lead Remote Teams Using Persona-Based Empathy
Many leaders have been through a crash-course in how to lead remote teams over recent months. Managing people well has always included understanding their individual circumstances, personalities, and styles. However, that’s been a challenge for many teams that previously shared office space and are now remote. The fact is that remote work (and education and leisure) are probably here to stay for the near future. We’ll all do better if we can strengthen our remote-first management, leadership, and teamwork skills.
Enhance your leadership chops by using empathy-mapping to understand each of your employee groups. Empathy maps help you think through the unique drivers and challenges, and best support tactics, for each of your employee groups. To get started, review the maps below for four personas that are common in today’s workforce.
Is Your Team Getting Crispy?
How can you protect against remote team burnout when you’re no longer with your team physically?
Many teams that were formerly working together in one office are now working remotely at least part of the time. This physical distance can make it harder for managers to determine how their team members are faring during these times of extreme and prolonged stress.
Do you recognize the six important behavioral signs of remote team burnout on your team?
Remote Work Challenges & Best Practices
How present are you when communicating with your colleagues, reports or manager? Mindful communication opens the door to deeper team connection and impact, and contributes to the overall resilience of a team.
Remote work took off this year. At the end of August 2020, Gallup reported that one in four workers is working entirely from home, and that the number of days telecommuters are working from home per month has doubled since last October. When the dust settles post-COVID, many companies will retain and refine the flexible work policies they’ve recently adopted.
Managing remote employees and teams requires a different skill set and approach than face-to-face management. If you’re still working out the kinks in your own approach, take a look at remote work best practices from RallyBright and Mindful Communications below.
Mindful Communication for High-Performing Teams
How present are you when communicating with your colleagues, reports or manager? Mindful communication opens the door to deeper team connection and impact, and contributes to the overall resilience of a team.
If you need a mindful communication tune-up, work your way through these five reflections and associated behaviors. They’ll give you a sense of where you’re succeeding and where you may need to change your tactics.
Preventing Loneliness & Isolation on Remote Teams
With millions of workers now many months into working from home, we’re seeing some big effects on employee mental health and wellbeing. Topping that list is isolation and loneliness among remote workers. After all, most people — 82 percent, according to one study — have at least one work friend. For those who live alone in particular, losing the daily social contact that comes with office colleagues is an adjustment.
The good news is that there are simple steps you can take to protect both yourself and your team from work-related loneliness. We teamed up with our partners Zarvana to provide the following guidance:
5 Tips for Keeping Remote Teams Connected
When your team isn’t together physically, you need alternate ways to foster the connection that feeds team resilience. Keep your team connected to bolster trust, psychological safety, and the ability of your team to engage in productive conflict.
The 5 Team Conflict Styles
Every team has its own conflict-management tendencies, but all successful teams have the ability to navigate conflict while also preserving relationships. Understanding which of the five team conflict styles is the driving force on your team and which is called on for backup is the first step to understanding the interpersonal dynamics of how and why teams produce or don’t produce the expected results.
