Managing and working on teams the procedures being used must be known, shared and understood. What are often seen as ‘personality conflicts’ are usually just people with unknown procedures on how to accomplish the work.
Using good decision-making procedures can have a highly positive effect on your team and the work that the team must complete. Using the actual work for Team Building.
Making decisions as a team requires a shared understanding and procedure for accomplishment. The confusion and strife that occurs because the team cannot make a decision will ruin any progress made on the work. In order for decisions to be made quickly, and the work to be completed on-time, on-budget, within quality, while the team still gets along, a known and agreed upon procedure must be used.
I am going to ask you a weird question, Pretend that we all go on break and during this break your team does what is normally does on break…But unknown to the members of your team everyone else was shown which rope is the correct rope to choose. BUT your team did not know this because you all were on a break. In what ways, besides just telling you which rope was the correct choice, could the people and teams support, guide, serve your team in making the right choice?
It is the above areas of uncertainty and how you handle it, based upon your knowledge, that makes you a valuable asset to the team. Human judgment and the ability to apply existing knowledge and potential new skilled knowledge, is the driver of all organization and individual progress leading to personal satisfaction with work.