Crisis Recovery: Implement a Productivity Mindset for Business

To effectively engage your teams for productivity, prepare for a confidential email survey of three questions to each member of your team. This process involves creating a survey with specific questions about team effectiveness and desired changes, compiling the data, and then sharing the results and committing to behavioral changes in a follow-up meeting. During a virtual team meeting, explain that you will be sending a confidential email survey of three questions to each member of your team. Create your survey. Consider using a spreadsheet where you can compile the results, or use a program like SurveyMonkey, where responses can remain anonymous. Your questions should include: On a scale of 1 to 10, how well are we working together as a team? On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do we need to be working together as a team? If you could change two key behaviors to help us close the gap between where we are and where we want to be, which two behaviors should we all try to change? Compile the data and calculate the averages for numbers one and two. The “average” team member believes that his/her team is currently at a “5.8″ level of effectiveness, but needs to be at an “8.7.” For question three, notice if there are any themes, and how they align with productivity, goals, purpose, and mission. Prioritize the suggested behavior changes. Which are the two most important? At your next team meeting, share the scores, suggested behaviors, and the two behaviors you would like the team members to adopt (and why, linking to mission, purpose, and goals.) In addition, ask each team member to choose two behaviors for personal change, to track their progress, and share their results in follow up meetings. When team members commit to this type of accountability, they focus on their own behaviors. When people are working together toward a common goal, trust and commitment follow. Productivity improves.