“One of the best ways to improve the quality of teamwork, the researchers found, was to incorporate active involvement into team-building exercises. For organizations, this means that interventions that utilize interactivity and active learning are likely to be more effective than lectures or other forms of passive instruction.” – How To Build A Better Team? … Continued
What team problems would an outsider miss, and be more readily observable to insiders – people on the team?
What do you notice, as an outsider to our company, when teams are having problems?
Research does point to three leadership areas where there are right and wrong directions.
You cannot throw a bunch of smart people in a room and expect them to become a team.
Workplace trust comes from the work and being useful to the team. Not from sharing deep secrets from your past.
Top managers of an organization have to recognize environmental differences in teams work. When a management team attributes “good” or “bad” work to team without taking in the environment the attribution eventually becomes self-fulfilling.
A team-member without a clear understanding of accountability and authority within the team will have to be skilled at either persuading, forcing or bullying other team-members into working along to accomplish the goals.
Sometimes focusing on now is what you need to get through your past and future. Plus if someone on the team did not ask, What do we do now? it may have had a different outcome.
Two favorite images illustrating the need for Managerial-Leadership and Team Development systems to be used within companies. Great teams and managerial-leaders happen on purpose.