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TEAM BUILDING |
In the world of work, the last fifteen to twenty years has seen a huge shift to the importance of working in teams. With this advent of the necessity to work through teams, tools and strategies to facilitate consensus and to work through conflict are called for as never before. There are no easy, clear-cut models to making teamwork easy. Each team has to figure which of the many team tools will work for them. Consensus tools are called for so that each team can move ahead into this uncharted future to discern and create what an effective team means for them. When tools and strategies are utilized to create a purposeful VISION, to encourage a participative PROCESS, to enhance individual COMMITMENT, and to build a collaborative TEAM, then team empowerment begins to grow. Short change any one of these and the team is lop-sided or incomplete. Without a VISION, there is no focus on what needs to happen, no reason for one. Without a participative PROCESS, there is no group road map to work through the intricacies of team decision-making meeting after meeting. Without individual COMMITMENT, there is no drive or energy to carry team plans through to completion. Finally, without a collaborative TEAM, the task of concerted action becomes overwhelming and burdensome. People burn out before anything has been accomplished. Team building is not an overnight task. It is a process which takes years and can be refined year after year. Nevertheless, you can begin today with your team to set the stage for team empowerment to grow, to establish the environment that fosters a powerful noteworthy team. ...................................................................................................................... |