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In her article Building High Performing Teams With Spirit, Dr. Sandy Gluckman, corporate speaker and expert in leadership and manager development training outlines the five key steps for business team building. She teaches the basics of instilling the concept of teamwork in your corporate environment. Thinking and Acting as ‘Us’ in Your Corporate Environment is one of the steps fully outline in the article. In her manager development training programs, Dr. Gluckman helps companies develop high performing business teams by showing them how to develop spirited teamwork within their employees and organization. In her programs, the word ‘spirit’ means that they demonstrate behaviors indicating life force energy, such as being feisty, courageous, energetic, funny, determined, curious, genuine, collaborative and focused.The concept of Thinking and acting as ‘Us' in Your Corporate Environment means that business team members consider 'Us' as follows: • Me and my boss• Me and my colleagues• Me and others in other departments whose support I need (internal customers)• Me and the organization I work for Thinking ‘Us’ has traditionally been called teamwork but it is really much more than that. Thinking and acting as ‘Us’ is indicates that team members are able to identify how their behavior impacts others in the company and works toward the common goal. In business team building, leaders need to create a corporate culture that instills Thinking 'Us' throughout all levels of the company.
In her manager development training programs, Dr. Gluckman helps companies develop high performing business teams by showing them how to develop spirited teamwork within their employees and organization. In her programs, the word ‘spirit’ means that they demonstrate behaviors indicating life force energy, such as being feisty, courageous, energetic, funny, determined, curious, genuine, collaborative and focused.
Dr. Gluckman sees the challenge of sustaining this after the employees have been through business team building exercises. Frequently, the impact is short term and then they go back to their old ways. Why can’t they sustain the team spirit they thought they had in the team building exercise? Mainly because their egos get in the way. No amount of intellectual reasoning, statistical proof, recipe style tools and techniques, or innovative business team building exercises will make any difference when team members relate to each other with ego defenses. Business teams that consistently need teamwork initiatives to help them build team spirit are teams whose egos are getting in the way of genuine connection and collaboration. Therefore, in business team building it is vital to teach the teams how to stop sweating the ego stuff. How do you build a high performance team that genuinely thinks and acts as ‘Us’ in a corporate environment? 1. Perform a team audit to discover the behaviors displayed by the team.
2. The team explores the results of the audit and takes ownership of the fact that they need to reduce ego behaviors and capitalize on spirited behaviors to improve teamwork.
3. The team writes a Team Charter committing to behavior that will create a collaborative team and strengthen their own individual skills.
Read the full article Building High Performing Teams With Spirit to learn more about Thinking and Acting 'Us', teamwork and the other steps necessary for business team building.
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