139: How to Maximize Team Performance, with Susan Gerke
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Susan Gerke: GO Team Resources
This model originates with Bruce Tuckman in the 1960’s
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
Susan and I discuss the issues at each stage above and the actions that both team members and leaders can take in order to maximize team performance.
There are several options when conflict emerges:
- Reform the team
- Do good
- Feel good
- Deal with the conflict
There are also several ways that change itself can happen to a team:
- Leadership changes
- Membership changes
- Changes to the purpose and goals of the team
Resources
- The I in Team* by Susan Gerke
- Go Team by Susan Gerke and David Hutchens
What’s one action you will take to be more proactive with your team’s development?
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| 0:00.0 | In the last episode we examined the four different types of teams with teams expert |
| 0:06.4 | Susan Gerky. Today she's back to help us discover how to maximize team performance. |
| 0:13.4 | This is coaching for leaders, episode 139. |
| 0:17.4 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:19.9 | Maximizing Human Potential. maximizing human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:28.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through |
| 0:39.0 | improved communication, human relations, and personal productivity. |
| 0:44.0 | And if you are joining the show for the first time, welcome. |
| 0:47.0 | This is the resource for you on how to get better at working with people and organizations. |
| 0:53.7 | And on last week's episode, |
| 0:55.9 | Susan Gerky was here to talk about the four unique types of teams. |
| 1:01.4 | And we talked in some detail about different kinds of teams in |
| 1:05.6 | organizations and what works well in some roles and what works better in |
| 1:10.4 | others and depending on what the organization's trying to do. |
| 1:13.7 | And I am so glad that Susan is back this week to walk us through the four stages of team |
| 1:22.0 | development and once you know what stages of team development. |
| 1:22.8 | And once you know what kind of team |
| 1:25.4 | you want to have in your organization |
| 1:27.1 | and what's going to serve your organization's |
| 1:29.0 | goal the best, of course, you want to be able |
| 1:31.5 | to do some work around developing that team and |
| 1:34.9 | Susan is a consultant and trainer. She has been doing this for over 20 years |
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