High performance organizations and teams require:
- Social and emotional intelligence critical for inspiring and influencing each other, sharing expertise, adaptability and accomplishing goals together.
- Motivation powered by a clear sense of purpose, positivity and desire for challenge and new learning. Norms for the processes of sharing information and making critical decisions.
- Communication skills and connectivity that empower members to deliver on goals and values, and are sustained through crucial conversations and difficult conflicts.
- Leaders who are self-aware, internally strong enough to accept responsibility for themselves and others and able to share power with others.
- Talent to support the expertise essential to the work of the team.
- Norms for the processes of sharing information and making critical decisions.
- Clarity about the context and politics of their work culture.
- Trust to sustain best practices even during challenge and uncertainty.
