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Team Energy Grid
Every organisation has them – a team that just doesn’t seem to be working. You could the leader of that team right now. You might have inherited this team or recruited some members yourself. Either way, you know this team is just not living up to its full potential. It’s frustrating and it’s causing you to have to spend much more time than you would like just trying to get the team working better together.
What’s going on?
A team is a network of individuals. They are connecting with each other both professionally and socially. But, as a leader, you’re not aware of those moment-by-moment connections and interactions. You might get a glimpse in a meeting as one person talks over another or points out the flaws in someone else’s idea, but you’re not able to get below the surface tensions and find out what’s really going on.
Not only can this be frustrating, but it can also be a barrier to success. Silos persist and that prevents true collaboration. Tensions rise and strategic alignment becomes a challenge. Over time, this impacts employee engagement, retention, and your organisation’s ability to innovate at speed.
Analysing the team network
One way to get into the reality of those team interactions, without sitting on the shoulder of each of your team members, is network analysis. It’s a relatively simple tool with powerful insights. It enables leaders to find out exactly how a team is connecting, collaborating and influencing each other when you’re not in the room. Most importantly, it takes the guess work out of team development. You’ll know exactly what’s causing the team troubles and how to fix them … quickly.
Network analysis is a way of studying the relationships and inter-dependencies in a team. It can also be undertaken at an organisational level too. It has evolved out of mathematics and computer science but is now an established and robust method of understanding how people interact and get work done.
The benefits of team network analysis
When you understand exactly how your team is networking and getting (or not getting) work done, you have the insights you need to fix the problem. That quickly leads to improvements in team team productivity, innovation and growth. Not only that, but the reduction in tensions, silos and patch protection leads to improvements in engagement, well-being and ultimately retention.
If you thought that the solution to your team not working was to change the team members, think again. It could be that some insights into the team networks can offer fixes that are quicker and easier than that.
As a leader, it’s not only a joy to see your team ‘humming’, it also frees up your time to focus more on the bigger organisational challenges. Your team is happier and more productive and so are you.
Learn more about Network Analysis and how it could help with your team challenges.
