IQ, EQ, TQ

If you have ever won anything in a team you will know the exhilaration and emotion that it creates. For me, winning in a team far exceeds the experience of winning as an individual. Thing is, what individual has ever won anything without the support of a really good team?

So when I read this quote I began to wonder why this was under the banner of the “future role of HR”?

While HR departments have traditionally focused on individual employees—recruiting them, developing them and assessing their performance—we are seeing the advent of a new capability, one of developing team intelligence, or the practice of understanding what makes great teams deliver exceptional results. 

Ashley Goodall, Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco, says, “One of the big misses in HR has been our nearly exclusive focus on individual development and performance. At Cisco, we noted great accomplishments are delivered through teams, not just through individuals working alone. This led to our insight that an individual employee’s experience is really their team experience and this is different for everyone.”  

Surely Team Intelligence (TQ?) has always been vital? Developing people within a team environment has to be a given, after all can you think of any business that succeeds while not working as a Team?

Our TQ model creates a really great opportunity to have a focused conversation on how you might be developing your Team to be successful.