The 4 Keys That Build The Best Teams

Taking your team from good to great!

Everything at beyond Church is all about people....people growing, people rising as leaders of their lives and of the things God has called them to lead.... Thi means that everything is ALWAYS ALL ABOUT teams.

My heart for this season is that we would see our teams growing numerically but also growing in both their capacity to carry greater levels of load, and their hunger for the things of God...

The following 4 attributes of great teams, I have stolen but I have contextualised them for Beyond Church.

After I share these 4 thoughts. I want you to tell me which one you are going to focus on this week and how you might apply that particular key to your context??

1. Conviction:

When we have conviction, we lead with vision and are guided by our mission and culture.

We don’t make decisions based on our personal preferences or our feelings, or the stresses and distractions of a single day. Great teams keep the mission and the culturefront and center. They talk about them. They make decisions based on them. They keep them relevant.

Our COVID pivot wasn’t a COVID permutation...we didn’t change our vision or our direction, or our culture, because we have a conviction about our calling as a team, we were able to keep moving forward.

2. Cohesiveness:

There is a big difference between a team that is functionally cohesive, and one that is relationally cohesive.

Functional cohesion is basically about reliability and dependability for getting things done. But functional cohesion alone will never create a great team, only a good one.

A great team is not only functionally cohesive, but relationally cohesive, meaning personally and emotionally connected.

The members are vulnerable with each other, with no fear of judgment or “scorekeeping.” They give and receive energy and positivity with each other.

This is built by being together not just DOING together.

This is why we have time in our services for teams to BE together not just DO together. Relationship building is ALL we are building. That is THE church, our connections with each other. MAYBE this week, in every meeting you have, one on one, pre service team meeting, appointments... go to that person/team and spend a little MORE time on BEING...and a little less time in DOING?

3. Clarity:

Clarity is king.

[STORY] I have to work very hard in this space...but it is essential!

Teams need role clarity. Each person needs to know what their tasks and job description are, and how to stay in their lane. Then they are more effective and efficient. And you avoid the problem of someone neglecting what is unique to their responsibilities, and going to a lane where the other person is already working.

Which sort of annoys the other person as well.

4. Candour. When a team has conviction, cohesiveness and clarity, these make it safe enough to have the honest and frank conversations.

A great team gives and receives feedback that is both positive and negative.

We benefit when someone says, “Hey, we have a problem here.”

You don’t want the mission to be sidelined because no one spoke up, for fear of disrupting things.

Candor helps a team disrupt in a positive direction.

Positive disruption!