{"id":4742,"date":"2016-05-29T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T16:43:07","slug":"high-performing-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=4742","title":{"rendered":"High Performing Design Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/figures_colored_teamwork_pass_puzzle_piece_300_wht_9681.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.improvementscience.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/figures_colored_teamwork_pass_puzzle_piece_300_wht_9681.gif\" alt=\"figures_colored_teamwork_pass_puzzle_piece_300_wht_9681\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It is possible but unusual for significant improvement-by-design to be delivered by an individual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It is much more likely to require a group of people &#8211; a design team.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And that is where efforts to improve often come to a grinding halt because, despite our good intentions, we are not always very good at collaborative improvement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This is not a new problem so the solution must be elusive, yes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Well, actually that is not the case. \u00a0We all already know what to do, we all know the pieces of the productive team jigsaw &#8230; we just do not use all of them all of the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Fortunately, there is an easy way to get around this problem. <strong>A checklist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Just like the ones that astronauts, pilots, and surgeons use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And this week I discovered an excellent source of checklists for developing and sustaining high performance teams:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Systematic-Guide-High-Performing-Teams\/dp\/1522871918\/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464539762&amp;sr=1-8&amp;keywords=ken+thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Systematic Guide to High Performing Teams<\/a><\/em> by Ken Thompson (ISBN 9-781522-871910) and here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNNWLj-3wx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TEDx<\/a> talk of Ken describing the &#8216;secrets&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The ones that we all know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible but unusual for significant improvement-by-design to be delivered by an individual. It is much more likely to require a group of people &#8211; a design team. And that is where efforts to improve often come to a grinding halt because, despite our good intentions, we are not always very good at collaborative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=4742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Performing Design Teams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how","category-what","category-teach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}