High Performance TeamsDr. Howard Ladewig, Interim Department Head of Agricultural & Extension Education at Virginia Tech, has a history of taking organizations from good to great. He stated three requirements for high performance teams: knowledge, commitment, and the ability to get along. My class team is currently working on becoming a high performance team. We all are committed to getting good grades and completely a quality project. We stated these goals at the very beginning of the course to make sure that we were all on the same page. We get along rather nicely; we respect and trust each other. The area we need to work on is the knowledge requirement. This includes our knowledge of the text and general concepts, which will help us perform well on RAT's and our knowledge of the Collegiate Times organizational structure to help us understand their weak areas so for our project we can tell them how to improve. Improving our knowledge in these areas will increase our grades which is our main committed goal.
Now what?
When oragnizations are putting together teams to solve problems or to make decisions, putting all of the brightest people together isn't going to necessarily result in a high performing team. Meeting all three requirements is crucial to high performance; not one requirement is more important than another.
Now what?
When oragnizations are putting together teams to solve problems or to make decisions, putting all of the brightest people together isn't going to necessarily result in a high performing team. Meeting all three requirements is crucial to high performance; not one requirement is more important than another.
