do you agree How To Build A thriving Team - 7 Key Components
How do you build a victorious team? Are great leaders born or made? Can you buy a winning team?
How To Build A thriving Team - 7 Key Components
Take for example the New York Yankees with one of the top payrolls in the Major League Baseball. They make the playoffs by winning their department or obtaining the wild card every year, but the ultimate title of a World Series Championship is never guaranteed. Why?
Yes it's true. In sports, there are some not-so-controllable variables such as team chemistry and luck. However, creating a victorious team all starts with a great leader who identifies and implements all that is required to build a winning team.
This applies to firm as well as sports. simply replace the sports-lingo with firm terminology. Whether you are coaching a sporting team or managing of a high tech company, the components required to build important teams are the same.
Here are my philosophies to teamwork & leadership that I've applied in firm as well as sports:
1) Find the right players. Talent helps because you can't make a donkey win the Kentucky Derby. If you need a Database Administrator, don't hire or promote a Help Desk who played with Microsoft Access.
2) Give each player a valued role. every person is important, from your cleaning staff to the Ceo. every person needs a valued role and team ownership, to create a sense of self-esteem to the individual. Without them, you couldn't be a team.
In acting, the supporting actor is just as important as the lead actor. In Baseball, the pitcher may get all the glory, but man has to play right field to make a team of nine players. Leave the personel ego aside, don't worry about the glory.
3) create a unique identity to the team. Give your team a nickname, or good yet, let them decide one. Sometimes that reasoning edge is all the belief they'll need. Success is all about confidence. Success is a team spirit.
4) Commit to excellence, not winning. The citizen on your team must have the drive to succeed. They accomplish and execute even their simplest tasks with pride.
In sports, winning is the end corollary of a numerical score. You can win a game numerically, but lose the game in reality and execution.
Thus I prefer to use the term excellence. If you're a janitor, then you set out to be the best janitor out there.
5) Give them a vision. A vision inspires and motivates the players or employees.
What drives them? What is the goal? Going Ipo for a start-up? Super Bowl? Money? If you have man on your team who is there just for the money, punching in at 9 am and punching out a 5 pm, that man isn't going to help your team succeed.
6) Play or work with passion. Every man on your team must love what they are doing. They must be passionate about their expertise. Such individuals don't sleep in very often. They are up early, ready to get the day started.
7) Get out of the way. Sometimes, you just have to give them the ball and let them do their thing. Stay off the field and let them execute!
When you're getting it right, the end corollary is ordinarily a team whose sum is greater than the personel parts, achieving more with less.
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