Performance Coaching Skills for Social Work by Jane Holroyd Richard Field

Author:Jane Holroyd, Richard Field [Jane Holroyd, Richard Field]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Work
ISBN: 9780857259936
Google: HTtgrZlOENEC
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 2012-03-22T03:36:42+00:00

A potential team exists where a collection of individuals have the basics for team building in place. There is significant scope for further development as reflected in the level of performance they achieve.

A real team is defined by Katzenbach and Smith as existing where ‘members are equally committed to a common purpose, goals and working approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable’. Real teams are likely to achieve higher levels of performance than a potential team or if members were to operate as a group. Katzenbach and Smith go on to identify a further level of performance which they label the high performing team and define as ‘a real team whose level of commitment to its purpose and goals exceed those of all other like groups and whose members are also committed to one another as individuals’. Often, high performing teams occur where there is a particular challenge, opportunity or crisis.

High performing teams tend to be comparatively rare and short-lived, sharing characteristics such as there being:

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