Teamwork makes the dream work. Jef Menguin offers team-building ideas, tools, and strategies that will help you build teams and make change happen.
Help your team make accurate assessments of its actions and structure. Understand that your team is a perfect fit to its current structure and performance of its members. People preoccupied about their daily businesses become blind to what they’re doing. They fail to correct themselves. They ignore the great potentialities …
The main purpose of team building is to ensure team success. Unfortunately, much of team building activities these days pay more attention to fun and games and less on results. Probably because training providers sell the packages, not the purposes of team building. It is not an event, a collection …
Observe that in many team-building games, facilitators require you to play one game after another. They give you instructions. Then tell you the time available for you — and the best time ever which you are not likely to beat. They do not bother to tell you why you’ll play …
This is a common mistake. In my eight years of helping organizations build teams, many managers think that team building is a great opportunity to chill and relax.
A common mistake is to consider work as an impersonal endeavor. Work is interpersonal. Cultivate a culture where your members value good relationships. Encourage magnetic relationships. When members have magnetic relationships, they are attracted to helping each other. They know precisely that you keep on standing as long as you …
Create a team charter with your team because a team charter can help focus on your purpose. Include the overall purpose of the team, your key customers, the key results areas, guiding principles, and team milestones. If you are a team leader, spend some time brainstorming the possible content of …
Build teams because you need to tap the talents and skills of others to be successful.
You need to enlist others to your vision and mission. Teams will multiply your results for minimum of efforts. In this post, I will contribute to your knowledge on how to solve common team problems.
You will experience exponential success when you encourage team accountability. We are on this together. We can achieve our team purpose when we work together. We are mutually accountable for our results. These are what your members say when team members are mutually accountable. Members of high-performing teams value mutual …
Intentional communication is the key to keeping your team informed, focused, and moving forward. As much as you encourage everyone to express themselves freely, clearly, and authentically — you must also create an environment where all communication is directed towards the positive and everything that will help you grow. Understand …
Responsibilities will not become clear to me when I do not know my role. You will see a lot of head scratching from your people if you do not take the initiative to clarify their roles and responsibilities. Filipinos are willing to commit to the roles they clearly understand. There …
Every member of high-performing teams works for the good of all. All works for the good of everyone. This happens to every team with a shared and meaningful purpose. Team members embrace, live your purpose every day. Everyone agrees that your purpose is the very reason why your team exists. …
Ensure that every member of your team are clear about your team purpose. You encourage them to answer the following questions individually and in private. What do you believe is the major purpose of our team? What is your vision about our team? Describe what our team would look like …
Almost all group sports promote teamwork. But you must be very careful in choosing your group sports for team games. Because how you win the game, not just how you build the team, is a metaphor of how you want people to achieve corporate goals. You do not want a …
Instead of a series of games, regard team building as a process of improving your team. The 6-D Approach can help you get started right. Define. Be clear about your goals for your team building efforts. Align your team building efforts with your strategic direction. Discover. Find out where your …
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