{"id":40,"date":"2016-09-26T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-09-27T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:40:16","slug":"the-four-stages-of-team-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The Four Stages of Team Competence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently a recruiter reached out to me about a three-month Scrum Master<\/a> role. Was I interested? No, I love my job at Steelray. Did I know of anybody? Well, maybe, but…three months?<\/p>\n

A Scrum Master’s core objective is to foster highly aligned, high-performing development teams, which takes time?certainly longer than a few months. Here’s why:<\/p>\n

The Team Competency Model<\/h3>\n

I?d invite you to consider that the specific skill sets of teamwork are acquired through the ?Four Stages of Competence<\/a>? ? a learning model that applies to teams just as much as individuals:<\/p>\n

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  1. Unconscious incompetence<\/b>
    \nThe team doesn?t understand team skills and doesn?t recognize the deficit.<\/li>\n
  2. Conscious incompetence<\/b>
    \nThey don’t understand team skills, but know they need them and want to do something about it.<\/li>\n
  3. Conscious competence
    \n<\/b>The team is actively acquiring skills, but it takes a lot of attention and in<\/i>tention to apply them.<\/li>\n
  4. Unconscious competence<\/b>
    \nThe team has had so much practice together that?being<\/i>?a team has become “second nature.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p>\n

    It?s been my experience that most teams are Stage Two, some are Stage Three, many (too many) are Stage One, and a rare few make it to Stage Four.<\/p>\n

    How About You?<\/h3>\n

    Considering the huge benefits of great teamwork<\/a>, it’s worth taking stock to and looking at your own competencies. Where are you on the model? Not just your developers, but sales, marketing and operations? Even senior management?<\/p>\n

    The litmus test is pretty simple:<\/p>\n

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    1. To what degree is everyone on the same page with the work?<\/li>\n
    2. To what degree is everyone on the same page with how they work together<\/i>?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      You may find there?s room for improvement. Even if you?re at stage four, it?s worth being intentional and devoting ongoing time and energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      Just give yourself longer than a few months. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Recently a recruiter reached out to me about a three-month Scrum Master role. Was I interested? No, I love my job at Steelray. Did I know of anybody? Well, maybe, but…three months? A Scrum Master’s core objective is to foster highly aligned, high-performing development teams, which takes time?certainly longer than a few months. Here’s why: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teams","category-uncategorized","tag-performance","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}