Guide to discussing the maturity and desired behaviors of your organization or individual teams
The Why
The Fundamentals of team maturity journey were outlined in The Wisdom of Teams book, by Jon Katzenbach and his co-author Douglas K. Smith. The research is a practical guide into "understanding what lessons actual teams and nonteams had for others who choose to struggle with change and performance".
Maturity Curve Voting feature in Neelix is the easiest measure of organizational maturity.
How Voting Works in Neelix
Step 1 : Select Team
- Leave "Group of people" filter blank in order to vote for the whole organizations
- or, update filter in order to vote for a specific team
Step 2 : Critical Self-Reflection
- Consider which description fully matches your team
- There are five possible statuses to choose
- You should choose the lower ranked option if the next stage description is not absolutely true
- Do not over-think this - best teams are the ones that re-invent themselves and may go through this cycle more that once
1. Working Group
This is a group of individuals whose outputs rely on the sum of individual bests. Members of a working group interact primarily to share information and practices that enable them to act within their own sphere of responsibility.
2. Pseudo Team
This is a group of individuals at the lowest point on the performance impact scale, because their individual efforts are not delivering very little joint benefit.
3. Potential Team
The team is moving in the right direction but hasn’t yet established collective accountability.
4. Real Team
This is the team where a small number of people with complementary skills are equally committed and hold themselves mutually accountable for a common purpose, goals and working approach.
5. Exceptional Team
This is a group of individuals where members are deeply committed to one another’s personal development and success. But we must be realistic and accept that project and programme teams are transitory.
Step 3 : Submit Your Vote
- Step through four tabs
- Driving engine for the team
- Managerial orientation
- Grassroots orientation
- Needs
- Each step asks only two questions- what you desire vs what is observed in reality
- Do not over-think it!
- Real value of the output is the trigger for the unadulterated conversation where people will fine-tune potential differences in perspectives
Result
Four visuals are built in real-time as votes get submitted:
- Maturity curve
- Organizational model bar chart, with detailed matrix of desired vs observed behaviors
- Maturity curve results per team
- Organizational model per team
Creating a culture depends on authentic and unadulterated conversations. Operating procedures are limited. Neelix helps people and cultural champions initiate conversations that end up bursting the bubbles of silos. Neelix is your virtual court jester or morale chief who doesn't suffer from face loss.
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