Summary
Ruth Wageman joins Dominic Monkhouse to explore the key elements of high-performing teams, focusing on purpose, interdependence, and team effectiveness. She discusses the Six Conditions for Team Effectiveness, including clear goals, the right people, and strong team norms.
The conversation highlights the importance of collaboration, diversity, and a supportive organisational structure. Ruth emphasises that leaders must continuously refine these conditions to drive performance and create a thriving team environment.
The conversation highlights the importance of collaboration, diversity, and a supportive organisational structure. Ruth emphasises that leaders must continuously refine these conditions to drive performance and create a thriving team environment.On today’s podcast:
- Creating a high-performing team requires clear purpose and interdependence.
- The six conditions for team effectiveness include creating a real team, clarity of team purpose, and a sense of team norms and values.
- Leaders need to continuously revisit and adapt the conditions for team effectiveness.
- Many teams lack clarity of purpose and are not truly interdependent, which hinders their performance.
- Building a great team requires a focus on the unique added value the team brings to the achievement of the organisation’s mission. The right people are essential for effective teams
- Collaborative skills are often overlooked but crucial for teamwork
- A small team with diverse perspectives is ideal
- Creating a supportive context is important for team success
Follow Ruth:
- Website: https://6teamconditions.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-wageman-9860388
Who is Dr. Ruth Wageman
Ruth Wageman is Primary Co-founder and Chair of 6 Team Conditions and one of the foremost scholars and practitioners studying and working with teams, especially leadership teams. The core of Wageman’s research, teaching, and consulting for the last 30 years has been focused on the conditions that influence superb team performance. Wageman’s work places particular emphasis on teams whose purpose is to solve complex problems and lead system transformation. She builds collaborative leadership capacity within and across organisations.
Wageman has been a professor at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Harvard, where she has led many original research programs about the design and leadership of teams. Widely published in both academic literature and in the business press, Wageman wrote “Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great,” (HBS Press) with Deb Nunes, Jim Burrus, and Richard Hackman, as well as many seminal articles published in Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Ruth designed the Team Diagnostic Survey with Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman. It is a powerful, well-validated assessment that measures team effectiveness and how well the six conditions that drive effectiveness are established for a team; she also leads accreditation workshops and supervises coaches in the use of the instrument in their practice.
Fortes:
- CEO Coaching & Top Team Development
- Collaborative Leadership & Governance
- Community Organizing for System Transformation
- Leadership Theory and Practice
What you’ll learn from Ruth Wageman
02:59 The Importance of Clear Purpose and Interdependence in Teams
09:57 The Six Conditions for Team Effectiveness
24:05 Creating High-Performing Teams: The Essentials and Enablers
30:06 Revisiting and Adapting the Conditions for Team Success
35:02 The Importance of Having the Right People
44:21 Creating a Sound Structure for the Team
54:39 The Role of Organisational Context