Why your team, aren't.
When is a team not a team?
Last week I went to Cameron Schwab's leadership event. It was a fantastic evening of insights, stories and practical habits you can build as a leader.
Amongst all the gems of wisdom, this statement stood out to me the most:
'Team' is an outcome.
So many times I am asked to work with 'teams' who aren't working well together. We put a group of humans together with the same department title, call them a team and therefore expect them to act like one.
But it's not like that.
Team, is an outcome.
It's the outcome of time, patience, understanding, trust, shared values, common goals, healthy conflict, agreement, disagreement, leadership, feedback, agreed behaviours, diversity, role modelling, success, honesty, and failure.
It's driven by you and it's driven by everyone in the group. And it's not easy.
So my question to you is this;
If your team aren't behaving as a team, what have you done to really drive and promote the active outcome of team, rather than the passive expectation of team?
When you think of team as an outcome, or the cake at the end of the baking process, what ingredients are you missing?
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
Henry Ford
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