Achieving Goals with your Team

Name: Achieving Goals with your Team
Author: Cara Terrance

You've got a team in place, now learn how best to direct them to achieve your aims

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Chapter Six: Achieving Goals with Your Team When focused on the collective goal, each member of the team focuses on achieving the team's purpose over and above their individual objectives. But as humans, it's also necessary that we honor our individual goals. When people are strategically placed on teams based upon their strengths, individual and team goals can coincide. Think about sports teams. If your individual goal is to score score 20 goals in a season, that contributes to your team's goal of winning 75 percent of its games. When your goals are aligned with the team's, it is easy to fulfill both. This allows individuals to connect to something bigger than their own personal achievement, as they are now able to see how their contributions influence team success. Collective goals can be short-term and long-term goals. The collective goal is influenced by the kind of team or its assignment. For example, a cost-functional team may come together to develop strategic goals for the next fiscal year. This is a team with a short-term goal. A focus team, on the other hand, may be together for the long-term, constantly assessing progress. (Whooshing). Let's check your understanding of collective goals. Why is it important to strategically place people on teams based upon their strengths? A, gathering a team of strong individuals leads to competition which will naturally lead to further success? Or is it B, individual strengths can help a team more efficiently achieve their collective goals? Or C, an individual without a clearly defined specialization provides no value to your team and its goals? So, which of these is the best? A, B, or C? Option A describes a scenario that does happen, but it is not the best answer as to why you want to strategically choose people based on their individual strengths. Option B: this is the best answer. It clearly explains how individuals' strengths can lead to collective success. And option C fails to acknowledge that individuals could have multiple skills that contribute to the success of the team. (Whooshing).

Beginner Provider : Cara Terrance 4 Lessons · 8m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

Keeping all the members of your team moving collectively toward your goals requires focus and strategy on the part of the team’s leader to ensure they are achieved. In this course, you’ll learn how to position your team members based on their strengths to maximize results. You’ll learn techniques to monitor the team’s progress and troubleshoot when issues arise. You’ll discover how you can harness the innovation of your team members and learn about the Post-it Note case study. You’ll have access to steps you can take immediately to create an all-inclusive strategic plan for your team that will take your team from inception to implementation.

What You'll Learn

Position team members based on their strengths to maximize results
Monitor your team's progress and troubleshoot when issues arise
Harness the innovation of your team members
Create an all-inclusive strategic plan that takes your team from inception to implementation

Key Takeaways

Keeping team members moving collectively toward goals requires focus and strategy from the team's leader.
Positioning team members based on their strengths helps maximize results.
Monitoring progress and troubleshooting are techniques used to keep a team on track when issues arise.
An all-inclusive strategic plan can take a team from inception to implementation.
The course references the Post-it Note case study when discussing how to harness team innovation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You'll learn how to position team members based on their strengths to maximize results, techniques to monitor progress and troubleshoot issues, ways to harness the team's innovation, and steps to create an all-inclusive strategic plan.

Who is this course for?

It is designed for a team's leader who is responsible for keeping all members moving collectively toward their goals.

What topics or lessons does the course cover?

The course covers Collective Goal, Monitoring Progress, Harnessing Innovation, and All-inclusive Strategic Planning, and includes the Post-it Note case study.

Does the course include practical steps I can apply?

Yes. It provides steps you can take immediately to create an all-inclusive strategic plan that takes your team from inception to implementation.