Reflect, Review and Reset Your Team
Reflect, Review, and Reset Your Team
As we draw toward the close of another calendar year, it is useful for us to spend some time reflecting on how this current year has gone. We often do this at an individual level where we reflect on what we have done through the year, we review the goals we set for ourselves and then we reset and plan what we want to achieve moving forward.
Reflecting on our Team Performance and Impact
There is huge value in reflecting, reviewing, and resetting our team. It’s great to think about the highs the team has had during the year along with the lows we shared and how all of these things contributed to our results and impact. When we allow our mind to think back over the last 12 months, what are the things that automatically come to mind for us? What are those keystone moments that we remember with little effort?
When we go through this process we can ask, what does my reflection tell me? Why have I remembered the things I have? What was significant about those things? Was it the way we pulled together as a team, or maybe we didn't so we missed an opportunity?
How do we want to be different next year? Did we have the impact that we wanted to have in 2023? Did we achieve the results we wanted to achieve? Did we gel well as a team? Did we integrate new team members with ease? There are many things we can reflect on to get a sense of not only how well we did with achieving tangible results, but also how well we did with our levels of trust, our communication with each other, our ability to pop out of our silos and focus on the key goals for the team, and our ability to hold ourselves and each other to account.
This process is a time for us to be honest with ourselves. Celebrate the wins and also be clear on what we think we want to be better at together.
Reviewing Team Performance
Teams can often easily review their tangible results and KPIs. What can be more challenging to review (and measure) is the softer skills required of the team to truly create a culture of high performance. We often struggle to put these characteristics into useful behavioural terms that we can then do something with. What is interesting though, it's this stuff that enables teams to shift the dial on the way they work together which will ultimately have a positive impact on productivity, engagement, and results.
Decoding how the team is performing against the key components of a high-performing team is the other side of the coin when it comes to reviewing your team's complete impact.
Resetting Team Performance and Impact
Once we have measured and decoded our team's performance, then we are in a position to reset and plan for what we want the next 12 months to look like.
We all have limited time and development budgets so we want to be sure that where we invest these two finite resources, will be targeted and help us achieve the outcomes that we want for our team. It also provides a useful ongoing way to measure our improvement in team performance year on year.
Creating and maintaining winning teams isn’t rocket science. What we often lack is the benefit of clarity through measurement to be able to make the shift in the way our teams work. Once we do this, we can create a common language and understanding that all of your team can use to create something truly exceptional.
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If you would like some help to decode your team’s performance and create more team impact then let’s chat. I’m currently booking conversations to explore how this approach can start your team development journey. Email or give me a call.