Improved Business Results Through Team Learning
- Recognize Need (What are the drivers?)
- Clarify the Vision. (What are your goals? How measured?)
- Identify your key processes.
- Identify the barriers to achieving your goals through your key processes. (Variance Analysis)
- Eliminate barriers and improve key process performance. (As measured by your metrics).
- Ponder how proposed changes will effect the broader and deeper aspects of the organization, people,
business and technical system elements. Keep in alignment.
- Critique the process and your role in it and continue in an ongoing and cyclical fashion.
What is Team Learning?
Team learning is defined as a team's ongoing, systematic, and systemic
activity of continually increasing its ability to create its desired results.
Goal of Team Learning
To create long term improvement through using the systemic discipline of
team learning--one that integrates existing approaches and tools while providing
a framework for the creation of advanced skills and competencies that can enable
teams to develop greater capability over time.
Examples
- Decision Making.
- Communication Efficiency.
- Goal Clarity and Visibility.
- Norm of Behavior.
- Value Congruence and Buy-in.
- Resource Allocation.
- Conflict Resolution.
- Cooperation - Within and Outside Immediate Team.