Successful Teams Create Leaders: How To Build High-Performance Teams in Leadership

We have a tricky question for you! We all remember the question of ‘’which came first: the chicken or the egg’’, right? What if we apply this riddle to leadership? ‘’Which one creates the other: the leader or the team?’’

Like the chicken and the egg example, the leaders and the teams mingled with each other because teamwork has the same importance as the leadership. For this reason, the Turing Talent’s Leadership Program provides young talents to work in a team so that they can apply their skills in the workplace and adapt themselves to group dynamics, which is significant in terms of proving their strengths as well as their motives to the team. Besides, the talents can get a chance to be recognized by the team with their unique skills in relation to the task. And at this point, the talent can be called on to lead! In this way, the leaders are created by the teams.

What makes a successful team?
High-performance teams are constituted by some major factors:
-Psychological Safety (a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking)
-Dependability (on dependable teams, members reliably complete quality work on time)
-Structure and Clarity (each individual understands job expectations, the process for achievement and the consequences of one’s performance)
-Meaning (Finding a sense of purpose in either the work or the output)
-Impact (Subjective judgement that your work is making a difference)

How high-performance teams create leaders?
Leading and following are both integral aspects of effective teamwork. Since each talent needs to ‘’bring their brains to work’’ to share their knowledge and ideas, the conditions for psychological safety should be created for them through:
-Approach conflict as a collaborator, not an adversary
-Replace blame with curiosity
-Ask for feedback on delivery
After completing the major factors above, psychological safety within the team brings trust and helps to build positive relationships. Building a trustworthy workplace boosts the confidence of the talents automatically because having confidence in yourself and inspiring the trust of others are the keys in leadership.

That is to say… ‘’Excellent leadership is about building up the people around you: trusting them, empowering them, and ultimately, enabling them to contribute their expertise so that the team can become more than the sum of its parts.’’

Join us to be a part of high-performance teams with the Turing Talent Leadership Program.