Mad River Behavioral Health

Building High-Performing Teams: A Guide Building a high-performing team is more than just hiring talented individuals. It's about fostering an environment where individuals can thrive, collaborate effectively, and achieve shared goals. Here's a guide to help you build a winning team: 1. Define Clear Goals and Expectations:  * Start with a shared vision: Ensure everyone on the team understands the overall mission and how their individual roles contribute to it.  * Set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals provide clear direction and motivation.  * Communicate expectations openly and consistently: Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and performance standards. 2. Prioritize Diversity and Inclusion:  * Embrace diverse perspectives: A diverse team brings a wider range of experiences, ideas, and problem-solving approaches.  * Foster an inclusive environment: Create a safe and respectful space where everyone feels valued and ...

  The Glorious Vision Senior  managers often have a beautiful vision … that becomes degraded, distorted, muddled, mangled, and tangled up as it passes down through the human layers toward the bottom of the organizational structure, where the workers who really need it most in order to make it happen never see it in all its glorious clarity.  The senior managers have to manage the transmission of  the vision personally. It’s not a “fire and forget it” issue.  In order to make it happen, it has to be actively kept out in front, at the top of the weekly conversation all the time.  It will need to be de-muddled, de-mangled, and de-tangled on a regular basis. Even small deviations will need to be actively managed.  It’s not that the middle tier is populated by bad people, just that it is populated by human people who are largely poorly trained and endowed with regular human flaws, stressors, shortcomings, etc.  ~ The middle tier needs its morale to be ...