Empower Your Team with the Healthy Teams Handbook: Build and Maintain High-Performing Collaborations
Take your teamwork to the next level with the Healthy Teams Handbook! This guide, developed by Extension Foundation’s leadership development specialist Karl Bradley, offers practical strategies and insights to build and maintain high-performing collaborative teams. Originally crafted to support New Technologies for Ag Extension (NTAE) project teams, this updated handbook is now available to help all Extension professionals.
Unlock the Secrets of Success
The Healthy Teams Handbook is designed to complement the Team Health Dashboard. The Team Health Dashboard is a research-backed tool, based on Google’s Project Aristotle. It evaluates five key aspects (“conditions”) that are essential for effective team performance:
- Psychological Safety: Feeling comfortable sharing ideas and opinions without fear of judgment.
- Dependability: Meeting commitments and holding one another accountable.
- Structure & Clarity: Having clear roles, goals, and expectations.
- Meaning: Understanding the importance and impact of your work.
- Impact: Knowing that your work makes a difference.
The Healthy Teams Dashboard showcases team health survey results in order to assess and monitor your team’s well-being.
Assess, Interpret, and Improve
The Healthy Teams Handbook equips teams with tools and strategies to actively improve each of the five conditions. Gain actionable insights, access real-life success stories, and explore inspiring leadership topics to truly empower your team.
About NTAE
The Healthy Teams Handbook is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation. Discover more about NTAE-supported work and find additional resources in the 2022-2023 NTAE Yearbook and in the Extension Foundation’s publications library.
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