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First you must understand that teamwork isn’t always the best means to
an end. When considering teamwork, ask
where in the organisation that it is most needed. Second, it is not enough to sell the benefits
of teamwork if the opportunities can’t be identified. The upper-management thinks that team-work is
a great concept for everyone in the organization except them. This usually happens when someone in
leadership get inspired about the organizational benefits of teamwork which
resulted in a mandate to create teamwork that is directed to middle management.
Middle management is of course expected to put their people through prerequisite
training and take the necessary step to make it happen. It usually become
obvious that upper management themselves either practises or support the
concept of teamwork. Teamwork only
happens from the middle down.
For teamwork to happen/to work, it must be embraced, in principle and in
practice, by everyone in the organisation. But the best place for a teamwork
initiative is to start at the top. A
successful team is made up of members who:
·
Are interdependent (wiling to ask for help when they need it, and offer
help when then can provide it)
·
Compete outwardly (not compete among themselves)
·
Are self-starters (understand the big picture and do not need to be told
what to do)
·
Shared reward and sacrifices.
The best thing to strive for is not a team with great leader, but a team
of leaders.
Shared
From:
Making
Teamwork Effective
By Mark Sanborn
The Star, Wednesday
Friday,
23 February 2011
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