Define Goals & Tasks
Setting mutual work goals and defining task interdependencies significantly improves team effectiveness and satisfaction.
Summary
Research demonstrates that a shared, collective climate around strategic imperatives positively impacts individual, team, and unit effectiveness. Implement a goal-setting framework like Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for projects or challenges. This approach ensures that team members understand their individual roles in achieving collective goals, fostering a sense of purpose and interdependence.
The idea
A collective response to adverse events requires teams to have mutual work goals as well as a certain degree of interdependence in performing work tasks, achieving goals, and outcomes (Kozlowski & Ilgen, 2006).
The Evidence
There is a large and growing research base demonstrating that collective climate [an understood goal] relates to the performance, member satisfaction, and viability facets of individual, team, and unit effectiveness. For example, Schneider and Bowen (1985) showed that a shared, collective climate in which service was the salient strategic imperative predicted customers' satisfaction with their bank branch. Kozlowski and Hults (1987) demonstrated that a shared organizational climate of the strategic imperative to stay technically up-to-date and innovative predicted individual performance, continuing education activities, and positive job attitudes for engineers in organizations pressured by technological competition and change.
Actions to Take
Use Objectives & Key Results for a Project: Objectives & Key Results is a goal-setting framework and can be used to define roles and responsibilities for short-term projects or pending challenges/opportunities. After articulating the macro goal for the tea (“We will sell X units by end of month'“), ask each team member to consider their role in achieving that goal. Ask them to complete the following mad lib: “I will do [OBJECTIVE] as measured by [KEY RESULT]”. Do this as a group so that everyone understands any key interdependencies.
Sources
(s)https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1529-1006.2006.00030.x
Define Goals & Tasks
Enhance Team Performance Through Clear Objective Setting
Summary
Research demonstrates that a shared, collective climate around strategic imperatives positively impacts individual, team, and unit effectiveness. Implement a goal-setting framework like Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for projects or challenges. This approach ensures that team members understand their individual roles in achieving collective goals, fostering a sense of purpose and interdependence.
Define Goals & Tasks
Enhance Team Performance Through Clear Objective Setting
Summary
Research demonstrates that a shared, collective climate around strategic imperatives positively impacts individual, team, and unit effectiveness. Implement a goal-setting framework like Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for projects or challenges. This approach ensures that team members understand their individual roles in achieving collective goals, fostering a sense of purpose and interdependence.
Define Goals & Tasks
Enhance Team Performance Through Clear Objective Setting
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Setting mutual work goals and defining task interdependencies significantly improves team effectiveness and satisfaction.
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