What can you do as a team member to help your team achieve The 6 Benchmarks of High Performance Teams? There are 12 team behaviors that directly affect the quality of your team’s results, the ability to make smart decisions, and the commitment to implement them.

Task behaviors focus on what is needed to get the job done. They ensure that an intelligent process is used to make smart decisions. But task behaviors alone are not enough.

In order to ensure decisions will be implemented, team members need to feel good about how decisions were made. This is why maintenance behaviors are just as important.

Become a “participant-observer.”

Each of the 12 team behaviors is important for your team to be effective. Most people are good at some of these and not at others. It’s not necessary for every team member to provide each of these behaviors—but they do need to be provided by someone.

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