The work of the team is not getting done.
This manifests in an Executive and Project-Manager stating “they just aren’t working together”, “we have some strong personalities and things are not getting done”, and “the same damn thing happens, why can’t they just work as a team?”… Systems-Drive-Behaviors and here are 4 system solutions for team problems.
Examining and learning how to develop functional organizational systems that attract trust; peoples ability to work with complexity; teams to function and be productive keeping people engaged and wanting to continue to do great work and stay on that team; plus allowing and placing managers in the position of truly adding value to employees, teams, and the organizations…is what will drive continued success for years to come.
To-Do : In-Progress : Complete: Target Chart
What is it?
A visual progress chart of team project. The project-team usees post-it notes to write the tasks in succinct language. Then as the work goes from To-Do –> In Progress –> Complete they move the post-it notes as needed.
Acknowledging the problem AND developing a shared understanding of the goal to be achieved. Then working backward to accomplish this goal by carefully and pragmatically searching through the organization, team and / or persons real-life and work experience to identify exceptions of when the solution is already happening or could possibly happen in the future.
We all have problems, every team has problems, every organization has problems I have not yet met a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…
The amazing thing about the amount of problems we face is that there are just as many solutions – some you have already found and some you just got to look for.