How to Create A winning team
How to Create a Winning Team in 10 years.
There must be a common goal. This means that there must be an end goal and objective that everyone can buy into. When the whole team is fostered and bought into an idea of doing the best they can toward an end objective, everyone is on the same page. Create a goal that incorporates building the team not only succeeding. Give those that can the shot to win while those that can’t the shot to be part of a successful and rich team culture that is once in a lifetime. After creating this level of buy-in the other principles are much more easily implemented. So, by making the goal more process-oriented while emphasizing the build we create more buy in and create the optimal challenge point.
This ties into the idea of group cognition. I can summarize this as a hive mind. A type of synergy that cannot be verbalized but displays highly interactive players (with or without speaking).
The team must create this synergy constantly and this will feed into their shared goal.
The team must solve problems both internally and externally quickly and accurately. These problems must make the team stronger and better for them. In addition to problem solving, the team needs to be able to predict adverse events and be able to function independently without coach supervision if necessary. They need to be able to create new procedures and be autonomous when novel situations happen.
As a foundation to these 4 principles, the team must be an environment of safety and vulnerability where each teammate feels that they have the freedom to fail, the accountability to strive to succeed, and the vulnerability to learn from their mistakes while taking advice from others.
Combine these traits with relinquishing purpose and process-oriented accountability and coaching to build a environment that is largely grounded in winning principles yet never emphasizing a “need” to win (thus making the challenge greater than their perceived resources).
With these principles established. You must bring in people that fit that culture and take out those that don’t. There is no nice way around it. If someone rebels against the culture and refuses to adopt those principles, then it’s tough to uphold the culture. Bring in those that will make the culture stronger will refusing those that will tear it down.
Then it’s just a matter of time. .
