A presentation discusses how to build high-performing teams. It defines high-performing teams as those that are highly focused on goals and achieve superior results. The key components of building such teams are assembling the right team members, having clearly defined roles and responsibilities, open communication, a clear and common vision, celebrating successes together, fostering innovation, and mutual trust and respect. A case study example is then provided of a UK startup that sought a partner to help scale its business during COVID. The partner's approach mapped the key components of high-performing teams.

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How to build High
Performing Teams
Vatsalya Jain
Sr Director, Product Engineering

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Agenda
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• Understand the meaning of High-Performance Teams [5 mins]
• Co-relation with an easy use case [15 mins]
• Case study example [15 mins]
• Q&A [10 mins]

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High-performance teams (HPTs) refers to teams, organizations, or virtual groups that are highly focused on their goals and
that achieve superior business results. High-performance teams outperform all other similar teams and they outperform
expectations given their composition. [Wikipedia]

4. Componentsofbuildinghighperformingteams
Assemble the right team Clearly defined roles and
responsibilities
Open and respectful
Communication
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Clear and common vision
Celebrate success together
Common Traits..
Foster Out of the box
thinking - Innovation
Mutual trust and respect
Create an empowering
environment

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Assembletherightteam
UnderstandingHPT’sthroughusecase–Movie“MissionMangal”
Mission : Clear and Focused
(to place a satellite in Mars Orbit)
Duration : Finite time
Budget Approved: Very Limited
Attempt : Maiden
Key essentials :
Deep Expertise in individual domains
Dedication , focus and commitment
Attitude and aptitude
Self – motivation

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responsibilities
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Createanempowering
environment
Components ofHPT’s
• Clear ownership , no overlaps
• Individual responsibilities
• Alignment at all levels with the
vision
Own , design and execute
Clearandrespectful
communication
• Freedom of thoughts and ideas
• Self Ownership vs micro-
management
• Foster culture to experiment and fail
• Mutual respect and inspiration
• Patient listener and advisor
• Being more of a ‘family’

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Components (3/4)
Celebratesuccesstogether
• Innovate, Innovate, Innovate
• Think out of the box
• Environment to learn from failures

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10. CaseStudy–HPT’s
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• How to align with the business ask for augmenting capability ( staffing vs partnering)
• How to build a team that is ‘self driven’ and get aligned with the ‘culture’ of the UK org
• How to build a culture of trust amongst the team
• How to foster innovation within the team
• How to enable an open and transparent communication model with the customer
• How to enable an open and transparent communication model with the customer
A UK based fast growing startup into SaaS Products for retail is looking to consolidate its positioning in its domain.
It has 5 product lines and looking to add 2-3 more products (and a platform) as per the current emerging technology
trend In order to scale up their business. The look for a partner ( preferably offshore) to help scale this curve in the
next 2-3 years.
All important – the entire engagement starts during COVID times
Key Challenges

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• Joint discussion on the vision and overall plan with the
customer
• Hire for initial seed members , who have core expertise ,
positive in thought and have ‘leadership’ traits
• A ‘core’ group to be formed amongst the team
• Democratic decision making amidst this small group
for all strategic thoughts
• Clear roles amongst this forum and skills to ensure all
aspects covered in decision making, and ensure
mutual respect
• A defined weekly cadence of this core group with the
key customer stakeholders
• More experienced people to have a key role in hiring of
the extended team
Approach
• Clear and common Vision
• Assemble the right Team
• Clear roles and responsibilities
• Open and respectful communication
• Mutual Trust and Respect
• Empowering environment
• Celebrate success
Mapping to HPT components

12. Q&ATime
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13. THANKYOU!

14. CaseStudy–HPT’s
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• How to align with the business ask for augmenting
capability ( staffing vs partnering)
• How to build a team that is ‘self driven’ and get aligned
with the ‘culture’ of the UK org
• How to build a culture of trust amongst the team
• How to foster innovation within the team
• How to enable an open and transparent communication
model with the customer
• How to enable an open and transparent communication
model with the customer
A UK based fast growing startup into SaaS Products for retail is looking to consolidate its positioning in its domain.
It has 5 product lines and looking to add 2-3 more products (and a platform) as per the current emerging technology
trend In order to scale up their business. The look for a partner ( preferably offshore) to help scale this curve.
Challenges
• Joint discussion on the vision and overall plan with the customer
• Hire for initial seed members , who have core expertise , positive
in thought and have ‘leadership’ traits
• A ‘core’ group to be formed amongst the team
• Democratic decision making amidst this small group for all
strategic thoughts
• Clear roles amongst this forum and skills to ensure all
aspects covered in decision making, and ensure mutual
respect
• A defined weekly cadence of this core group with the key
customer stakeholders
• More experienced people to have a key role in hiring of the
extended team
Approach