5 Habits for Team Excellence
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then
is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle.
Habits are routines of behavior that are
repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously (Wikipedia.org). Experts
state that the brain is designed to develop habits that can help an individual
perform specific tasks and activities automatically, repetitively and more
effectively. Habits also result in predictive results, such as to improve
accuracy, enhanced out comes, and even excellence. Goals in turn guide habits
most fundamentally by providing the initial outcome-oriented impetus for
response repetition. In this sense, habits often are a vestige of past goal
pursuit.
So, can teams and organizations instill habits
amongst all members to become highly effective in their pursuit of achieving excellence
in their field? At GamePlanX we believe instilling corporate habits is an
essential factor to achieving team excellence. Our experience with high
performance teamwork leads us to recommend the following habits to achieve Team
Excellence:
1. Advertise the vision, plan, and desired
outcome on regular basis
2. Be aware of opportunities, competition and
readiness to execute
3. Proactively seek access to Knowledge, Training
and Infrastructure
a. Knowledge and Guidelines to achieve desired
outcome
b. Infrastructure to execute efficiently with
Processes, Resources, Systems
c. Train to execute as expected
4. Build Team Spirit - Encourage and Facilitate Teamwork,
Celebrate Wins, Acknowledge Effort, Evaluate and Empower to Improve.
5. Execute with initiative, discipline, purpose, precision,
and most of all passion.
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However, how does an organization
instill such habits so that they are woven into the very fabric of daily task
execution to achieve excellence? How can leadership bring together all of the
resources, processes and systems to make it easy for every team members to
adopt the 5 Habits for Team Excellence?
GamePlanX (GPX) can help you put together all the components
essential for easy adoption of the 5 Habits for Team Excellence. We offer a
comprehensive framework to develop a Winning Organization as illustrated in
Figure 1 below - that enables immediate sharing of vision, goals, and plans
with the workforce, and then, allows management to get out of the way while
teams and employees are empowered to collaborate and execute as planned.
Figure 1: GPX Winning Organization
Framework
The GPX Winning Organization Framework comes
from our experiences of working with world renowned scholars to impart
continuing education skills training and professional services; and high
performance pro-sports, military and emergency/critical healthcare delivery
team development to bring about significant and immediate performance impact
towards leadership and workforce empowerment to achieve planned business
outcome. As part of the Winning Organization Framework, we also provide you
with access to GamePlanX, a powerful multimedia platform, which will be
customized so your teams can stay connected to the knowledge, experts and
attendees to establish communities of learning for easy adoption of the 5
Habits for Team Excellence.
(You can also find related information
by reading the blog on enabling an organization to realize strategic vision, http://gpxwinningorg.blogspot.com/)
Figure 2: GPX High Performance Teamwork
Model
We hope you found this blog
interesting. You can send us your feedback on this topic or contact GamePlanX
at econcierge@GamePlanX.com to learn how GamePlanX can help
your organization instill the 5 Habits to achieve Team Excellence.
