Achieving Long Term Resilience Through The Principles Of Teamship

Effective teamship, which embodies the principles of adaptability, shared accountability, and collaboration, is the foundation of all resilient businesses. Teamship encourages  teams and departments to function as interconnected units, combining their individual strengths with a shared sense of purpose to maximise collective success. 

Team coaching can help embed these principles and practices within your organisation and transform how your constituent teams operate. By creating an organisational culture in which mutual responsibility and a common sense of purpose take centre stage, you can empower your leaders, individual employees, and teams to deliver sustained success for your organisation.

So, how do you use these principles to lead a team successfully?

Nurture Healthy Team Dynamics

A team’s inner strength lies not just in its skills and shared capabilities, but in how its members support each other and interact on a day-to-day basis. Healthy team dynamics, in which individuals feel safe to contribute and communicate openly in the pursuit of common goals, is one of the main cornerstones of teamship, and is one of the keys to achieving long term resilience in your organisation. In particular, psychological safety is the glue that holds most teams together, helping create a space where participants are respected and are free to contribute, challenge assumptions, and take more risks.

Measure Kpis And Reward Success

Teams that win together bond quickly and form strong mutual trust. Celebrate hitting targets and key benchmarks so that these bonds can deepen. But a balance must be struck. Doing the work, fulfilling tasks and ensuring the targets are hit are also important. Teams who focus excessively on nurturing relationships may struggle to contain discipline. Likewise a rigid adherence to task completion may deliver results initially but lead quickly to burnout. 

Make It Systemic

Creating a system-wide approach to long term resilience can transform disjointed teams, silos, and departments into a unified and collaborative organisational powerhouse. By applying teamship principles across your organisation, you can improve collaboration between individuals and teams, foster a greater shared sense of ownership and accountability, and establish a culture of learning and resilience. 

By ensuring your focus includes all teams and departments,  your organisation can become greater than the sum of its parts, encouraging teams to work together toward common goals, in an innovative environment in which all participants feel connected to a common purpose.

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If you’re looking to build more resilient teams in your organisation, please get in touch with Centre For Teams today for tailored strategies and support. Contact us today by clicking here, or call us on +020 4538 9923.