🆙 How To Create A Winning Team

The best teams in the world - whether in business, sports or elsewhere - don't just happen, they are made.

That's a simple and important insight. Because all too often I speak with leaders who see their team's performance as a given fact rather than an opportunity to shape it.

My thesis, which proves true again and again, is that if the leader really wants it, it is possible to form a top team from any group of people ("fellow workers") in a fairly short time, a team that reliably and joyfully produces top results. I call this a "winning team."

Productivity can be a multiple of the original as an effect, fun is significantly greater, attraction to talent increases, and so on. There are many positive effects that make the journey worthwhile for everyone.

Is that easy? No, of course not! Is it doable? Absolutely.

As with any major transformation in life as in business, there are a number of steps to take to make it happen. 

Here are three of those steps that are a good starting point for the journey to becoming a winning team:

1. Ambition and self-confidence.
   I deliberately put this at the beginning because it is often completely forgotten: Without some ambition, no one will want to change anything. And without self-confidence (the belief that it can be done), you won't be convinced that it's even possible to achieve anything outstanding. So you have to work on both specifically at the beginning.
2. Winning strategies and tactics.
   After the first step, it is of course important to know the best and most relevant strategies and methods that will sustainably increase team performance. These are strategies to develop one's mindset, methods to create more trust among each other, and much more. Selecting the best strategies and tactics in each case takes a lot of experience, which I incorporate, for example, in my winning team program.
3. Anchoring.
   You know this from every transformation, even privately: You have to "stick with it" so that the successes of the change really materialize. It is no different with the winning team. The decisive factor is ongoing targeted work on the most important changes while at the same time achieving initial successes. Of course, this also requires some expertise so that this journey does not end prematurely.

This gives you three important steps you can take to sustainably and systematically improve your team's performance (and thus your own).

✅ If you want to talk about it, just set up a short conversation with me. Then we'll go from there. You can schedule an appointment ➔ here.