Set your team up for success (week 11 – 12)
Well done! You’ve worked your way through the 5 key focus areas and are nearing the end of the training plan.
For the last two weeks of it, you’ll now be putting everything together. You’ll be combining what’s worked for you over the last 10 weeks into a lovely final plan.
Brilliant.
Putting it all together
What to do
You’ve been learning and practicing some really important skills to help you set your team up for success. It’s now about putting all this together. You’ll be taking the best bits of the last 10 weeks to create a plan for keeping set up for success.
Why do it
Taking time to review what’s worked and create a ‘super plan’ is boring but important. Elite performers never stop doing that. They’re constantly reviewing, learning and tweaking so that they’re better and better at what they do – whether it’s about setting the team up for success or anything else. Doing this:
- Combines the best bits for maximum impact
- Gives you a bullet proof plan that you know will work all the time
- Lays the foundations for great performance habits
- Means you’re really understanding what works and is right for you
How to do it
There are 3 steps to take with this. Read these through, look at the example and then create your own plan.
1) Review what’s worked
Start by checking to see what rating you gave yourself at the start of the plan on how well the team was set up for success and where you said you’d like to be. Then look back over the last 10 weeks and pick out what’s really worked well for you. There will be stuff that’s worked well and stuff that hasn’t worked so well. Remember this is what’s helped you improve and get to the rating at the end of the plan (which you’re nearly at) – not to get to 10/10. You were aiming to improve not be perfect on this!
2) Your ‘super plan’
You’ll then be creating a ‘super plan’ of all the stuff you’re going to practice over the coming weeks. These are the things you’ll be committing to doing! You’ll also note down when you’ll be doing it.
3) Your practice schedule
You’re clear on what you’re going to be doing and when – this last bit is about getting it in your diary and also telling anyone else who needs to know about it.
Example plan
You’re nearly ready to put it all together so you can continue to be set up for success. But to help you along the way, we’ve completed an example. Read through it, get some ideas from it and then create your own plan.
1. Review what’s worked in helping you be set up for success.
| My starting point /10 (your rating at the start of the plan) | 5/10 |
| My ending point /10 (your rating for end of the plan) | 8/10 |
| Impact (0-10) | ||||
| Weeks 1 & 2 | Focusing on the collective performance | 6 | Really useful to lay the foundations | |
| Weeks 3 & 4 | Your collective purpose – Why you exist | 9 | Can’t believe we never did this before. Simple but effective | |
| Weeks 5 & 6 | How everyone needs to perform – behaviour and roles | 7 | Obvious but useful. We now need to do it! | |
| Weeks 7 & 8 | Collective motivation – what you can control and connectedness | 8 | Really useful to do this collectively and see what we could control between us | |
| Weeks 9 & 10 | Mutual accountability for collective performance | 6 | Need to keep going with this. Not going to happen overnight | |
2. My ‘super plan’
| Over the next two weeks, I’ll be practicing: | ||
| Focus area | What | When |
| Focusing on the collective performance |
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Before team meetings in writing whenever I see good examples |
| Your collective purpose – Why you exist |
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When I’m talking to the team
When I’m communicating with others outside of the team |
| How everyone needs to perform – behaviour and roles |
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Whenever I see examples of what we said we would do or not do |
| Collective motivation – what you can control and connectedness |
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Often. My aim here is to make this a habit for me and the team |
| Mutual accountability for collective performance |
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In 1-1s
In team meetings Whenever I see good examples |
3. My practice schedule
You’re clear on what you’re going to be doing and when – this last bit is about keeping it in your diary and also telling anyone else who needs to know about it.
Get it in the diary now to review and plan team set up!
Who else do I need to speak to:
| My peers to talk through what we’ve done and continue to do. Tp share what’s worked and what I’ve learned. |
Coaching tips
You’ve made a great start, but remember things change. Your organisation, the people in your team, the challenges you face. So keeping your team set up for success will also require ongoing focus and effort.