SOLUTION:

Expert Database

PURPOSE: With your team, create a database identifying individuals who are experts on the skills and capabilities needed to successfully deliver team and individual performance objectives.

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SOLUTION:

Expert Database

PURPOSE: With your team, create a database identifying individuals who are experts on the skills and capabilities needed to successfully deliver team and individual performance objectives.

Time: < 1 Hour

STEP 1: Before a team meeting, ask your team members to capture the skills and capabilities they would like to build or develop over the next year.

STEP 2: During a team meeting, create an expert database grid on a flipchart or dry erase board, and list the skills and capabilities team members would like to develop.

STEP 3: As a team, determine if there are additional skills or capabilities all team members need to successfully deliver the team’s desired results.

STEP 4: Team members identify individuals who have expertise in the identified skills and capabilities. An expert is someone who has:

  1. Successfully applied the skill or capability in a previous role or work project
  2. Is asked by others to use the skill or capability to solve an issue
  3. Consistently delivers a high level of performance when using the skill or capability

STEP 5: List the expert, a description of the person’s background, and his or her contact information on the grid.

STEP 6: Summarize the information to create a team Expert Database for everyone to use. You may want to leave the “database” up for a week to give team members time to add additional experts before the information is summarized for the team.

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