According to Tom Love, culture plays a vital role in creating high-performance teams.
After all, your team can be the absolute best in terms of skill. However, if there’s no environment conducive to the people that have mastered that skill or if the environment can’t contribute to your employees bringing their skills together, it will not lead to high performance.
Psychological safety and zero judgement are examples of essential components of an effective team culture as they allow your people to come to work as their authentic selves and perform to their best abilities. The environment and culture your team are exposed to are among the most significant factors when promoting high-performance.
Now, culture is a broad term, but Tom shares some of the aspects you must pay attention to:
Tom shares his experience of working at a previous organisation, XpertHR. He tells the story of when he was asked to go to California and build an XpertHR US branch from the ground up.
When establishing the team, he initially had a reference in the form of the culture from the UK head office. However, he quickly realised he’d have to build a brand new culture that suited the new team he was building to ensure they connected and resonated with it.
The process of allowing a culture to develop and shape was tough, and it took six months of challenges before the members found their place in the business. Once the culture was embedded and people felt comfortable, it didn’t take long for the results to follow.
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