Organization Development
Team Alignment Goals: High Performing Teams
"TEAM ALIGNMENT" enables a working team the opportunity to assess its strengths, as well as those areas that need improvement and growth. A senior management group's team alignment efforts have definite implications for the total effectiveness of the entire organization.
Specifically, the goals of a team alignment effort are to provide team members with:
- A better understanding of the team's mission and character – its purpose and role in the total functioning of the company.
- A greater awareness and clarification of each player's individual roles, goals, and points of intersection.
- A greater awareness of obstacles preventing the team from working at peak efficiency.
- Faster, more efficient ways of working together to solve business problems, make decisions, and resolve conflicts.
- Greater collaboration and interdependence resulting in greater team ownership and accountability in the achievement of business goals.
The ultimate goal of team alignment is the creation of a more cohesive, mutually supportive group that will have higher expectations for goal accomplishment and individual accountabilities, and at the same time respect differences in values, personalities, etc. This will enable the team to accelerate its development and maximize its potential in the fulfillment of critical business objectives. The key attributes of the high performing team are found on the following page.