A very good work group is productive, secure, and glad. An important work group is one thing solely completely different. In a current publication, we proposed 4 processes that take group outcomes to an entire new stage. As a substitute of specializing in whether or not a group produces superior work and has glad members, we look at how the highest-functioning groups function. Furthermore, somewhat than simply taking a look at group members’ collective efficiency, we incorporate the leaders’ contributions as a part of the group.

What are these 4 qualities?

1. Synergy is the time period we use to explain group efficiency, whereby leaders and group members work collectively to provide at ranges “over and above expectations.” Synergy can solely happen if all group members are functioning properly, and there may be intensive collaboration amongst group members and with the group chief. In synergistic groups, members really feel that everybody is working in unison, and the chief is facilitating, somewhat than merely directing, efficiency. Synergy goes past mere productiveness.
2. Professionalism is when group members and group leaders are dedicated not simply to high quality work however are devoted to excellence within the work they carry out. It’s a unending pursuit of excessive requirements of excellence on the a part of each leaders and followers. Workforce members saying, “We maintain to the best requirements of efficiency” and “I can actually say we’ve no weak hyperlinks on our group,” would counsel excessive ranges of professionalism.
3. Presence goes past staff merely exhibiting up on the job. It implies that all members – leaders and followers – are engaged and “mentally current.” It displays an intense dedication to the group, to the work being achieved, and to the mission and objectives of the group. Presence implies that group members come to work centered and able to contribute.
4. Chemistry is the time period we use to explain the extraordinarily excessive ranges of satisfaction and engagement amongst members that happen in the easiest groups. It focuses particularly on the standard of the leader-follower relationship and the way each leaders and followers really feel about it. It includes subjective experiences of unity, cohesion, and delight produced by the group dynamics and the relationships amongst leaders and followers. Chemistry implies that ranges of belief are very excessive and there’s a sense of belonging and togetherness.

We have now developed scales to evaluate these dimensions and are exploring how these shared, leader-follower outcomes relate to extra conventional indexes of productiveness, high quality, attendance at work, and member satisfaction/engagement. We consider that enthusiastic about these “higher-level” group outcomes will encourage groups to carry out on the very highest stage and have interaction in steady enchancment of outcomes and group dynamics.