Building a Team That Sees Your Vision

Matt introduces students to the concept of teams and challenges students to think about a group of people which is a small group, led by a leader, who are committed to the leader’s goal and approach and held accountable by the leader versus a team which is a small group of people with complementary skills and abilities committed to their common goal and approach for which they hold each other accountable.  Additionally, Matt discusses the three elements that are happening in any organization (Task, Process, and Relationship) and how each element should get equal time in effort.

Using Bruce Tuchman's “Development Sequence in Small Groups," Matt works with students to identify the first two phases of any team's development: Forming and Storming and how as team coaches we can lead our teams out of each phase.

Matt left off the last lecture by asking the students how do we get teams out of conflict and the Storming phase.  In this lecture, Matt provides some insights about how to get a team out of Storming and into the Norming Phase to eventually reach Performing Phase or a High Performance Team.

Having discussed the proper way to structure and grow a team in the last 3 lectures, Matt moves the focus to helping students start to develop a vision or change initiative. When we talk about a new vision and acceptance of that vision we are really talking about change. A “vision” is asking people to change from what they were doing before to doing something new and novel.

We don't need to create a vision haphazardly.  There actually is a neat formula for that!  Matt leads students through Gleicher's Change Formula (DxVxF>R) as a successful way to create a new vision people buy into.

Finishing out the course, Matt leads students through the final portion of the Change Formula and introduces the use of a One Page Strategy to easily talk about your vision.  Matt finishes the lecture and course with this conclusion: Getting your team to see your vision is about working on the relationship first by being vulnerable and trusting. A team will embrace your vision when you have put together a systematic plan to achieve that vision and show them their part in that vision!