Monday, August 27, 2012

How to build team unity


If you're a sports fan you will notice that there are two types of teams that usually make the playoffs. The first type is a team with a lot of all stars. This team could have well over half of their players to be the cream of the crop and this team will have walked many opponents to reach the final games. The other teams reaching the playoffs are very few or no all star. Instead, they have demonstrated a record of above average, but just seemed to jell really well. I often suggest to people that the best way to build a team in any industry is to have few, if any, all the stars.

Why not if someone wants a team of all stars? On the surface it sounds like it makes more sense, but it is often too high a cost. Consider the amount of teams that I know and have a lot of all the stars, which often has a high ego, high disagree with their coaches, and are more interested in themselves and not the team. Consider now the only team in which everyone seems to jell together, where the coach the players are all in harmony.

Very often a team with "average" players who have committed to each other, coaches, and the program is a top favorite with the fans, owners, and the league. There is usually a greater amount of trust and belief in their ability to do something great. Seem less processed and more real to their fans who are excited about a trip like the team.

So how do you get the same effect in your own organizations? How do you do so people are committed to each other, you and the program? It starts in two points. The first is at the top with you and your top-level executives. You must create a system that makes it attractive to join. Find humble people who simply love what they're doing and are excited to be on your team. To create a place where there is very limited policy and attention to always do what is best for the company. If you create this top will penetrate the rest of your organization. You should always set a good example in this area.

The second position is occupied when you are looking for other people to join your team. Instead of going strictly for people who come from high schools or high-end programs to find those that are often overlooked. In business as in sports are brutal levels of friction no matter what your background. Two years down the road nobody cares where you come from. They care more about what you are doing to help push forward the organization. So start asking questions themselves dealing more with the ability of someone to do a job and start finding the other traits of good team building earlier in the process. We seek people who are humble, great team players, high givers trust (someone you can easily believe), and the integrity tied as an example of where you should start.

The humble people are often more confident in who they are and have a realistic level of faith in their ability or think a little 'less of themselves. They will be undershoot long period and over-run, rather than the reverse. Great players will do what is best for the team and care less about the direct benefits that will have them. As a leader they will set that type of example that encourages positive growth and we are honest, who wants to be the shock that took advantage of a nice guy.

Givers have high degree of confidence that people can always add the accounts that have relationships with other people. You always do what they say and people know that, based on past experience, we can count on these people to get the job done without having to look over their shoulders and go back to correct their mistakes. These types of people are very competent. Integrity is what keep your company and its people from getting into trouble for doing something wrong. Find people with integrity and have the most honest people that establish ethical standards for your company more dishonest .......

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