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America was built by revolutionaries, based upon the shared vision and simple motto of a group of great leaders: E Pluribus Unum: "Out of Many, One"
George Washington, John Adams, and Ben Franklin proposed this simple Latin saying in 1776 to represent their shared vision of united group of independent yet organized states.
Teams fulfill our core human need to belong, yet remain independent. We need to be our own sovereign part of something bigger than ourselves.
Many times people like us: independent free-thinkers, get reputations for being rogue agents and "problem-children" in a team setting.
As a result, just hearing the words "team building" conjures up thoughts of "assimilate or die." It makes me uncomfortable to think about all the workshops and trainings I've gone through where my personality and values felt trampled, violated, and managed.
I know I'm not alone. Do you ever feel like character is missing from your team or workplace?
You Don't Have To Be a Total Buttkisser To Be Part of a Great Team!
If
success or failure of the planet and of human beings depended on how I
am and what I do. . . How would I be? What would I do?
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At its core every team is made up of two simple elements:
- Values
- Purpose
Team building is rarely looked at from its core: the connections that need to be made between people before performance can happen.
Typically, people are "managed" reactively, their behaviors, right and wrong, are ignored, punished, or praised in response to their actions.
Often, team leaders ignore their obligation to help others, push their group toward synergy, or inspire people to excellence.
Even on good teams, changes to strategies and tactics comes constantly as the environment surrounding you shifts. Good teams are flexible, their members are able to think and speek freely. This is why the best teams are those whose Values and Purpose are so engrained into the culture of the team that as change occurs, their identity never waivers.
Teams Begin as Ideas
But, too often in most organizations, a team's lack of defined values and purpose becomes a problem in and of itself.
Developing an effective team building process is about organizing values and purpose as a shared vision across all ranks of your organization. . . creating "From Many, One." This process is the difficult challenge individuals face when setting out to create or re-build a team.
We build teams:
- to solve problems
- to gain competitive advantages
- to focus and leverage our money, time, resources, and energies
- to achieve specific goals.
But, before people can align themselves toward accomplishing a common endeavor they must know themselves and those they work with.
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquinted with the designs of our neighbours.
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To build a great organization we gather human capitol from diverse backgrounds and strengthen ourselves with those we believe give us the best chance of succeeding, and we get to know one another. Only then can alliance happen. There are shortcuts you can take toward reaching your ultimate destination quicker, but there is no easy way.
Too often our shared vison and competitive advantage is sapped by unseen events, unfocused team members, unclear expectations, and unhealthy work environments.
True teamwork is a difficult thing to come by.
That is the purpose of this website, to discover how to build the right team for your needs by finding and influencing the right people.
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