What I’m Learning About Teambuilding

A few nights ago, I was doing an evening review. That’s when you look over all the events of your day and review them by starting from the present time and going backwards. In this review, I realized that our new leadership team is working marvelously. We are taking actions to insure that each team member – and prospective team members – learn the skills necessary to prosper in our businesses. I also realized that each one of us is working to add more players to our team to make it a superb team.

When I finished the review, I started examining sports teams, military teams, and musical teams like the Boston Symphony. What I’m finding is…a team functions well when each individual team member knows and plays his or her position. A team will not function well unless each individual team member functions well.

So each of us has a choice. Which type of team do we want to be part of? Do we want to be on a winning team or a mediocre team? Do we want to be on a high performance team or a low performance team?

High performance teams are safer. Each team member looks out for the other’s interest as well as his or her own. And there are financial and psychological benefits as well. The players get paid more in every way possible. They earn more money and they get more pleasure out of playing the game.