{"id":424,"date":"2011-06-07T20:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T03:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigers-den.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2011-06-07T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T03:44:27","slug":"the-tigers-model-6-values-for-building-effective-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/2011\/06\/07\/the-tigers-model-6-values-for-building-effective-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"The TIGERS Model: 6 Principles for Building Effective Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In our May 25, 2011<\/a>, I discussed six principles that build highly effective, collaborative and cooperative teams.\u00a0 In this post, I explore how these principles faired during two extensive independent studies conducted by Gonzaga University and the Washington Education Association thart resulted in the TIGERS Model.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the six TIGERS collaborative principles \u2013 trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success<\/a> — surfaced from education, business and psychology group dynamic studies, a survey containing <\/span>57 questions was developed to determine whether the values were measurable and reliable indicators of collaborative team development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teams from 17 intact groups, including a Boeing facility participated in the survey. The teams received a pre and post survey and teambuilding interventions over an 18 month period.\u00a0 The results were independently monitored by heads of departments at Gonzaga University and were interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 One finding concluded that the Principles interdependence and success are highly correlated with the other four values.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This means that an improvement in either Interdependence or Success will increase the other values, too. This made good sense.\u00a0 The TIGERS Model does balance the team and work equation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was also interesting is that the principle, Interdependence, speaks to building collaborative relationships while Success speaks to accomplishing quality work and achieving goals.\u00a0 Therefore, balances between the work people do and the well being and relationship quality of people doing the work is critical for long term team success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another finding concluded that the six values predict group behavior either by their inclusion or omission.\u00a0 This means that group dynamics is measurable and corrective action can be taken to shorten the time new teams spend in conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another finding indicated that certain understandings that people have about effective team behavior line up with individual values.\u00a0 Therefore, the survey could measure with a good degree of reliability where teams are strong and areas for improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Valid and reliable<\/h3>\n

One year later another study was conducted by school districts through the Washington State Education Association.\u00a0 Officials from the teacher\u2019s union wanted to identify specific training to offer teachers to improve team skills for school site councils.\u00a0 The concept of school site councils \u2013 teams — was a new concept in Washington State. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The trend toward site councils — composed of teachers, parents, and principal \u2013 proposed that a site council was best suited to make decisions, solve the school\u2019s problems, create and monitor improvement programs then school administrators who had little knowledge of the school\u2019s daily operations and service area.\u00a0 This was a transitional shift from school administrators making all the decisions to localized, team decision making.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately training and development days for teachers were seriously limited.\u00a0 WEA wanted to know where they would receive their best return on their training investment on a school-by-school basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

WEA concluded that the TIGERS survey was highly predictive and gave the school a good team opinion snapshot for strategic workforce development \u00a0training and team development purposes.\u00a0 And since the six values are demonstrated by behaviors that are readily visible, WEA officials concluded that TIGERS was basic, simple and made good common sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, officials further concluded that the quality of the values can also be measured and monitored over time as a site council changes or grows.\u00a0 This is an important feature for any team that gains and looses team members and for leaders who want to know what to look for in new employee candidates.\u00a0 TIGERS offered a way to track and monitor a strategic team development process on a school-by-school basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the time the studies were concluded in 1993, work with merging organizations and newly emerging teams cultures concluded that the six TIGERS Principles — trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success — reinforce the vision, mission, goals and operational values of team-driven organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Principles and supporting behaviors limit the time teams spend in conflict and are powerful predictors for selecting successful new employment candidates to fill positions on existing teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright TIGERS Success Series, Inc. by Dianne Crampton<\/p>\n

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