Are You Wrestling Team Building Ideas?

Is your best effort
undermining your
team's success?

Smart business owners understand, effective systems accelerate their business' growth and potential for success.

Then why is there no system when developing the vitally important relationships between a business's most valuable assets, it's people?

Left to their own devices, gremlins creep in and weaken the internal wiring of your team. Most of the time you don't even recognize the problem until it's too late!

The wreckage is in motion and picking up momentum! You can work harder, most businesses do, but despite your best efforts you can't make the business succeed.

If What You're Doing Isn't Working, Do Something Else

Are you waiting for your team to change? Your team's attitude gets worse. People produce less and less. The weak lines of communication break down further. Good people quit, those who stay become more apathetic.

Dysfunction is setting in.

As a leader you're doing multiple jobs: constantly putting out fires, providing therapy to calm nerves and sooth egos. . . all while trying to provide the leadership for your team to meet its business objectives.

You're overwhelmed! Because you're forced to focus on everything. . . except the business itself! How can you focus on improvement when you can't even catch your breath?

What happened? Why is your team acting like a pack of wild dogs?

Embrace the Opportunity in the Problem

If you build your team according to a chaotic process, you will get chaotic results. If you don't fully understand how people think and act in a team setting, you will never harness the full potential of your team.

Here's some spots the team gremlins will rear their ugly heads:

• Communications
• Ability to Follow Directions
• Working Relationships
• Professionalism
• Lack of Creative Problem Solving
• Productivity

Only when you understand how people think can you align your team to a common purpose. . . this website is dedicated to clarifying this process.

But Why Should I Be Interested in Team Building?

There are many confusing sites on the web talking about management, teams, and team building; I strive to make building a team simple so you can discover and apply the timeless principles available to your business.

I'm curious about how people and groups act. Discovering and giving away information is a way to engage with and help others who are trying to build an effective team.

I've been part of a team my entire career, both in business and as a professional firefighter. I've often felt like the "teaming" process was fatally flawed.

I'm curious to discover why when you take a group of talented, hard working folks and put them together, why certain people perform while others almost always fail.

I want to know exactly what separates the winners from the losers? That's why you should subscribe to our newsletter (that's a hint).

People will still think for themselves and make decisions on their own. Using these team building tactics, you facilitate people making clear minded decisions that benefit the ultimate purpose of the team.

Clarity is the first key to building a better team. You must get clear on what you want to achieve, that is the starting point.

Right now, are people on your team making decisions based on the "greater good" or based on their own benefit?

Sure there are good folks ready and willing to work together with their coworkers or to put in an honest day's work without being micromanaged. Look around your office and you can spot these people.

But often this peace is undermined by those folks who cause havoc where ever they go.

I'm sure you can spot the knuckleheads: find the drama in the office and 9 times out of 10 these people will be involved.

Discover Exactly Why Teams Fail

• Ego
• Lack of Skills
• Insecurity
• Personality
• Lack of defined goals

These factors block your team's success as a whole, and your personal success as a leader. But with the right information it is within your power to influence the people around you.

It is your duty to influence your team for the better.

Where do you start? And how do you make the necessary changes?

This website is dedicated to help you make the positive changes to your team. Changes that will grant you a needed edge on your business career and a boost to your peace of mind.

Unwilling to Change?

Team building is reactionary. . . it's about improving performance. Which means, right now, your team's performance is less than what it could be.

We could try to get all warm and fuzzy, but if you're a small business owner, or a manager trying to save your neck, "warm and fuzzy" ain't gonna cut it in comparison to effective team performance.

If everything were good: people would be working together without conflict; all your organizational/team goals would be met; and there would be a general "healthy environment" throughout your workplace. . . there would be no reason to invest your time, money, and energy into "team building" activities.

Is this the case?

It's simple: You build teams to improve your business. . .

Team building activities are designed to improve your team. . . it's logical to conclude the team building process should improve your business!

Your team must change if you want your business to improve. . . you must help improve the performance of the people working on your team.

That means:

• improving teamwork dynamics
• getting rid of the people who undermine your teams success
• training and promoting only the folks who perform

Building a team is about developing and keeping the winners, and getting rid of the losers. Because you want maximum results from your efforts.

So where do you start?

It all starts with the willingness to change for the better. Realizing your old way of doing things has gotten you into this predicament, and you're going to need new strategies, principles, and methods to improve your teams performance and shore up your business.

What will the results be? If you run a small business, more work will get done faster, more efficiently, communication will improve, and with less stress. Goals will be met and surpassed, quotas will be filled. More profits will fill the register and you'll waste less money.

If you truly want a quicker, more efficient, way of managing people you owe it to yourself, your business, and your core team, to change the way you manage the people around you.

As you get rid of the boneheads more good ideas will pop up, less drama will ensue, and you'll find the real core performers.

What is the Price of Staying the Same?

If you're managing to improve the bottom line, the long-term benefits of a properly structured team building process far outweigh the short term investment you must make.

At first it's a process of identification and elimination. You take a good hard look at your business. You identify what's working and what isn't. You clarify the steps to take to fix things.

Always document what you find.

As a manager you must do an autopsy on your own business. But even while you examine the guts of your business, you must keep it on track. Just because you've decided to build a better team doesn't mean the bills stop piling up or employees stop getting paid.

It's as easy to get sucked into the trap of thinking that there is a quick fix for your team as it is to worry about how much this whole "team building" thing is going to cost you in time, energy, and money.

More than money or time, effective team building takes unreserved commitment on your part.

The majority of the "expense" will come in the form of energy and thought to improve the structure and dynamics of your team.

How do you track the result of your efforts? Teamwork resists charts and graphs. The true testament to how your team is working together is measured by the increased profits and the smiles on people's faces when the show up to work.

With the right concepts you can quickly identify the roadblocks holding your team back.

You develop a system that encourages teamwork and collaboration, while your team works!

No wasted time, no thousands of dollars out the door. The results of an integrated team building process are priceless. Not only do you meet and exceed your goals and your bottom line swells, but happiness at work becomes the norm rather than the exception.

People like coming to work because they know what's expected. They've invested in the process of building your business for you.

The Key to Success (in good times and bad)

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbours.

~ Sun Tzu

If you're a business owner or leader you know the frustration of trying to manage some people to work together.

When you try to integrate the wrong people into your team it's like trying to mix gasoline with water. Not only does it not mix, it spoils both parties.

You must build a team that executes based on core principles and proven systems that work. You can't just rely on great "leadership" because what happens if your leader quits? Are you going to allow your business to fold until you find your next great leader?

Like you, I've been on both sides.

For winners, the frustration of being on a losing team is palpable. You can cut it with a knife. The wonder of what I could have done better still haunts me to this day. I still have that empty feeling in my gut of having to wake up and go to work for a boss that I didn't respect, and deal with incompetent coworkers.

I also remember the clarity and joy of working with several great teams. Work became easy. . . you knew what the goal was and you knew exactly what you needed to do to achieve it. Success breeds success.

When you're part of a winning team you expect results and you systemitize the methods and processes to execute in order to achieve the desired result. Then you perpetuate these customs to everyone involved with your team.

Effective team building develops and empowers people AND your business. This website is dedicated to exploring and developing the systems by which you can do the same.