We Are All One Team
Build a team so strong you don’t know who the boss is.
- T – together
- E – everyone
- A – achieves
- M – more
Teamwork is in every aspect of your life. Home, family, and work. An environment rich in teamwork promotes loyalty, friendship, and trust. In a place of work, this encourages employees to work harder, cooperate and support one another. These are the individuals that possess great talents, strengths, great communication, integrity, and honor.
Teams often embody the following characteristics.
Clear direction
Understand the greater good.
Open and honest communication
Communication is key. However, there is always a time and place. If you believe strongly about something then make your voice heard but do not disrupt the entire workplace. This will accomplish nothing.
Support risk-taking and change
Change is inevitable. Most people do not like change, therefore they will initially become negative and drag others down with them.
Mutually accountable
Teams accept responsibility as individuals and as a team. They don’t blame one another for team mistakes and failures. No one should spend any time, useless time, in personal justifications. They should celebrate their successes together and recognize special performances and contributions that each team member makes to the total work of the team.
Common goals
What is the common goal? Is the end result better for the greater good? Look at the entire picture.
Encourage differences in opinions
Agreeing on a common goal is essential. But it shouldn’t come at the cost of suppressing alternative ideas and opinions. Having divergent opinions within a team enhances team performance; a diverse team is its competitive advantage.
Diverse opinions stir the imagination and new ideas. Imagination and new ideas stir creativity. Unless the status quo is threatened and questioned, you won’t find those crucial “out of the box” ideas.
Team trust
Trust is very important. If members of your team feel they cannot express themselves freely then you have a break in that team.
This is a great post! Team building exercises are definitely important in building rapports to work better