How Teams Work Identifying Reasons People May Resist Your Team Work
You cannot change someone’s resistance, you can only change your approach.
You cannot change someone’s resistance, you can only change your approach.
The success of your team goal and team work depends in good part on cooperation from the people on your team and people across the larger organization.
Change in how the work gets done takes time, plus people want to be on learning teams.
Our team, group, shift is the best… The others suck! How this can be useful; when it can be useful; and who is the person responsible to creating collaboration between the perceived ‘us vs. them.’
Acknowledging the problem AND developing a shared understanding of the goal to be achieved. Then working backward to accomplish this goal by carefully and pragmatically searching through the organization, team and / or persons real-life and work experience to identify exceptions of when the solution is already happening or could possibly happen in the future.
The Legalist: Everything the team does MUST follow the rules, exactly as they are stated.
Teams are often surprised that the model has a step before ‘Establish Trust’ (Establish-Trust is Step 2). Very often as Team-Leaders and manager, even team members we skip this first step because we just think that everyone knows it already.
Experiential team development and communication based simulations and discussions. Framed within the context of determining the current level of teamwork, trust and communication.
Teams are made of people, NOT the other way around, and Great Teams are able to increase their leverage of work. An amazing thing happens psychologically when we are on a work team that clicks, that is connected, that flows. To people outside the team work looks easy. All of this Team Process and Skills takes work and that one asshole who joins the team can throw everything off.
Edmonson also point to exactly what team-building is “Many groups no longer have the time to go off-line for team building activities.” TeamBuilding must now happen in real time with the work teams are tasked with.