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Creating A Team
By Michael | September 10, 2009
“TEAMWORK = The state achieved by a group of people working together who trust one another, engage in healthy conflict, commit to decisions, hold one another accountable, and focus on collective results”.
- Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team
Would you agree with Patrick Lencioni’s definition of teamwork? How many of us can say we are truly a team member? Or better yet, how many of us have had the opportunity and success to gather a group of individual contributors and create a high performing team?
A critical step for building a team is for the leader and each team member to understand and appreciate the strengths of the other team members. Maximizing collective strengths increases motivation and satisfaction levels as well as results.
As individuals, we don’t always want to invest the time required to build relationships within the team. As leaders, building team dynamics will serve us, and the team well, and enable the team to build trust and avoid finger pointing.
A true team:
- Shares their successes and takes ownership for all failures.
- Addresses conflict in a healthy, honoring manner.
- Speaks up when they feel other team members are out of line.
- Supports the common goal.
- Replaces individual needs and focuses on what is best for the team as a whole.
- Uses “we”, “us” and “the team” instead of “I”.
- Shares information and keeps one another “in the know”. Rarely do we hear complaints about being over communicated to which primarily deals with receiving excessive emails. Ask your team members what they want to be copied on; this will allow you to create distribution rosters based on relevance.
Another tip about communication is to hold team “huddle” meetings in the beginning of the week and at the end of the week. These meetings should last no longer than 15 minutes and may be attended via phone.
The intent is for each team member to share headline news only ex. successes and issues impacting goal achievement. No person should speak longer than one minute; for team members requiring more detail side meetings are arranged after the huddle. Each attendee also has an option to “pass” if they have nothing to share.
Huddles do not replace team meetings - but rather are another vehicle to keep the team informed and build relationships. The team meeting is the place to hold ice breakers, share personal news, and of course provide business and goal updates.
There are many tools available to help teams and individuals better understand themselves and others, appreciate differences and build trust. Examples include MBTI, DiSC, Listening, Conflict, and 360′ feedback.
You as a leader have the ability to enable your team to increase their level of success. Let us know what best works for you!
Sincerely,
Michael W. Kublin and Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime”.
- Babe Ruth
“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success”.
- Henry Ford
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