Decide jointly on a team scoreboard

Create real team spirit by building a team scoreboard to measure and display joint performance


Give your team a measurable objective every week. That which is measured is done.

Get a page for your team on the intranet of your company

Display publicly the performance of your team

Federate your team around the team business plan

The team BP is a 5-page model document describing how your team will contribute to the financial and non-financial measured performance of the organization.

Decide on a team identity graphical chart and logo

Enforce its use on all mails

Bond your team by setting out its mission on a single page.

 Write your own mission down first.

Use a team "bible" of check-lists to jointly face the most frequent situations

Add a page to your team bible every week. Delegate by writing down your know-how as instructions in the big book.

Sign a teamwork convention.

Get a written, signed teamwork agreement with all team members

Decide on the team glossary and on the real name of the team shared files

To avoid misunderstanding and ease knowledge sharing

Use the team delegation test to prevent conflicts

Ask each of your team members to note on a paper to whom they think they can ask to do something on their behalve. Share the answers

Who is your co-pilot ?

Identify a Number 2 or a Chief Operation Officer to operate your team

Never accept a team as you receive it.

 Challenge every person team membership. Start staffing from your requested competency list.

People do not work naturally together well

Apply two or three team cohesion methods from the favorite list. Select the key word "Team" to find examples.

Decide on the team replacement chart for all team critical functions.

For the six major team critical function. Who is in responsibility. If this person is not able to guarantee this function, who in the team will be in charge ?

Organize quarterly a team building event

Enforce the open agenda policy to build a strong team

Ask all team members to note in their Outlook agenda, hour per hour, where they are, doing what.
Get automatic access to your main collaborators’ schedules.

Use a team decision board.

A question. Two columns with Yes and No.

To facilitate the consensus on your team quarterly objectives, use the TCI exercise.

The Team Cohesion Exercise predict the team performance.

Display and enforce the agreed team mailing rules.

Ask team members to use the drop list to select the subject of a team message.
Have your messages automatically sorted and sent to your files and your delegates. Outlook can take care of this.

Organize a 4-hour team strategic meeting every quarter

 To reset the team objectives and the strategic positioning

Have your team weekly meetings on Friday afternoons. Not on Monday mornings

Why Friday afternoon and not Monday morning ? It’s more effective to give objectives to a team before a rest day than before a work day.
The weekly team meeting is for tactic, not for strategy. Results, facts and figures should be on display on the wall. No cries, no tears, no excuses, just actions on deviances for the next week