Team Performance

Welcome to our blog! Gilder Group International (GGI) is a Dallas-based consulting firm that specializes in learning, human performance and organizational development (OD) services. We partner with organizations that use continuous learning to empower their people to grow themselves and grow the business. Founded by Michelle Y. Gilder, with her passion for empowering people, GGI’s team of Experienced Practitioners have collectively devoted 100+ years to sharing the timeless principles of Mastering Leadership.

The meaning of the word Mastery as defined by Art Kleiner, “Mastery, as we use the word today, reflects maître. It means the capacity not only to produce results, but also to “master” the principles underlying the way you produce results” – -from The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter Senge, et. al.

In his book, The Servant, author James C. Hunter defines Leadership as “the skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good”.

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Our Building High Performance Teams learning events begin with the question, “Is your team high performing?” Answers range from yes to don’t know. Crystal clear roles – how we design and divide tasks – is one of the six elements of a high performance team, and is one of the top 3 areas that prevents high performance.

To demonstrate the concept of roles we ask participants to think of a high performance automobile and they always choose a make/model of sports car. Each group chooses a part on the sports car they want to represent. Most groups really have fun with this by creating a drawing or even building a model of the represented part. They then discuss the role of the part, how the part contributes to the sports cars’ high performance, and what happens to performance when the part functions as designed and what happens when it doesn’t.

We use the sports car example successfully to facilitate participants understanding of the concept of roles and how crystal clear roles help build a high performance team.

Mastering Leadership question(s): Are your team members crystal clear about their roles? What barriers prevent the high performance of your team?

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