Ideal team and what it would take for you to develop that team?

I think that a team that collaboratively, honestly, sportively, and openly work together towards a common goal (objective) in a coordinated way, the members of which are giving their best and are able to produce results, support, trust and be accountable to each other would make an ideal team for me.

While there are many theories and practices in developing an ideal team, in my opinion these are series of actions taken in right consequence that would address gaps based on maturity/development  level of the team  as broken down and presented in both Three-wave pattern and Tuckman’s model. E.g. at the stage of Taking Hold (from Three-Wave Pattern) and Stage 1 –Forming (from Tuckman’s model) I would take the following actions:

• Clarify objectives and task of each team member
• Make the mission the motto of the team
• To have a clear direction, see the future and beware of the next steps in formation/performance of the team
• Take initiative and introduce exercises that will strengthen the trust among team members, allow them to learn about each other more and increase the level of commitment 
• Teambuilding exercises would be very beneficial for this stage 
• Emphasize small group projects that the team members familiarize working with each other 
• Establishes norms, rules, performance expectations, indicators and monitoring tools 
• The leader should to absorb, analyze, come up with quick fixes and think of using the mentioned analysis/ lessons learned as an information to shift the next stage of three-waive pattern in a more informed way 
• The leadership style of the team leader is acceptable to be directive

E.g. My team is currently transitioning from Stage 2 – Storming to Stage 3 – Norming; According to the Three-Wave Pattern my leadership style is Stage 2: Immersion transitioning to Stage 3: Reshaping; from the five most common performance gaps the most important existing ones that need to be addressed are: Ability to delegate tasks, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, Ability to clearly define the roles of team member. The Table 1 nested below flashes out my plan on what strategy to use and how to address the gaps.

I found the Three-Wave Pattern not only informing my approach to addressing performance gaps, possible outcomes, next steps, leadership style but also a tool that shapes the stages of development of the teams, members and leaders and their behaviors at each stage by keeping the possible expectations clear relevant to each stage.

For my team and industry, as demonstrated in the table below, the Team Culture, Gap Analysis, Adult Learning, Leading Through Teaching, Creating Team Synergy, Task and Relationship-Focused Processes are very dynamic tools and techniques that play significant role in team development and success at any stage of team development as the team members, leadership, functions and the objectives change all the time in my industry.

I have came up with a matrix that structures the analysis above.