Executive Coaching Secrets for Creating High Performance Teams – Mutual Accountability Leads to Results

Are you working in an organization where leaders are good at building high performance teams? Do the leaders in your organization create powerful teams?

One of the most powerful questions one can ask oneself is “How do I create teams that promote mutual accountability?” Emotionally intelligent leaders create high performance teams that are accountable.

Are you good at developing high performance teams? Do you inspire your team by making work social and enjoyable? Are you adept at creating teams that produce high performance results?

Mutual Accountability Leads to High Performance Results

Though it may not seem like anything special, mutual accountability can lead to astonishing results. It enables a team to achieve performance levels that are far greater than the individual bests of the team’s members. To achieve these benefits, team members must do more than just listen, respond constructively, and provide support to one another. In addition to sharing these team-building values, they must share an essential discipline.

Katzenbach and Smith in their books about teams (The Wisdom of Teams; Teams at the Top) talk about five essential disciplines of effective teams:

1. A meaningful common purpose that the team has helped shape.
2. Specific performance goals that flow from the common purpose.
3. A mix of complementary skills.
4. A strong commitment to how the work gets done.
5. Mutual accountability.

The challenge for top management is how to build effective teams without falling into the trap of appearing to promote teams for their own sake. There should be relentless focus on performance. If management does not put the focus on the link between teams and performance, then there is the risk of teams becoming another management fad. Paying constant attention to specific teams and their progress on specific performance goals is the key.

Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become a transformational leader who builds powerful teams that promote mutual accountability. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of the company.