High-Performance Learning Teams

In realising the vision, when it comes to embedding technology into curriculum, you can introduce it, you can give it a sharp focus, you can design it, you can write units of work, you can write endless outcomes of it. But at the end of the day, if it is going to work, it is teachers in the classroom — the barefoot doctors — who will make it work!

We think, therefore, it is critical that the strategic thrust of an organisation should be on team learning as a connective leader understands that teams can learn: in sports, in the performing arts, in science, there are striking examples of the team that exceeds the intelligence of the individuals of the team, and where teams develop extraordinary capacities for coordinated actions in order to achieve the organisational vision.

Developing Commitment and Teamwork

Why do people commit, or fail to commit, to working cooperatively within organisations? What inspires people to become other-centred from being self-centred, within workgroups and organisations?

Three interpersonal needs are central to securing people’s commitment within workgroups and teams:

• Inclusion — a sense of being recognised, involved and accepted; a sense of being "in" and of status;

• Control — a sense of having a responsible role and of being invited to influence the group members, a sense of personal and team power; and

• Affection — a sense of being respected, supported and close to other members of the group; a sense of belonging and appreciation.

We offer strategies in developing commitment and teamwork in learning organisations.

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