Cultivating High Performance Work Culture: Beginners Guide

How do we build a high performing team? Should we hire experienced professionals or young ones? Right fit Vs right attitude, which is more important for hiring? How to motivate individuals? These are the most common concerns every manager has.

Here are the 9 useful mantras which may help in building high performance culture

Understand strength and weakness of team. While recognizing the strengths challenge their weaknesses.

Create “one for all and all for one” culture in team. Encourage and recognize individuals who help others in team while achieving their goals.

Employee success is manager’s success. Share the success with team, accept the responsibility of failure.

Prefer hiring people with right attitude over skill. Build a team with complementary skills. 15% of your team should be individuals with less than 1 year of experience. Youngsters have appetite to learn and attitude to experiment.

Individuals who fit in team culture is more important than job profile fitment for hiring.Never hire an individual with perfect skill match for role. Your company has nothing more to offer other than salary raise.

Encourage team to spend 10% of individual bandwidth for innovation with no penalty of failure. Give opportunity to learn new skills which is not related to job. Always raise the bar while keeping the realistic expectation.

As a manager you are limited by corporate goals and budget constraints, communicate clearly the expectations to team. Performance feedback is a continuous discussion not appraisal day topic.

Acknowledge, recognize and reward the team’s success in public and discuss failures in private. Manager has to understand that employee “works for a day of salary and rest of days for recognition”. So recognition is as important as reward