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Do you expect
your team to work more productively than it does?
We often acknowledge, if only privately, that
the mind of another individual is unfathomable
— "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".
Put just two or three people together with a common purpose and
you have a team; you cannot avoid it. Yet teams, as necessary as
they are, multiply the dynamics. They even form a life and
personality of their own, distinct from their constituent
members.
In a team people with often
hugely diverse backgrounds, work-styles and belief systems are
asked to set aside differences and suddenly start working as
one. In many cases the challenge is compounded because the team
leader will have considerable technical or subject matter
expertise, but little aptitude, expertise or formal training in
how to manage and motivate psychologically complex human beings.
Forming
a team to address an issue does not guarantee a great result -
or any result at all. Building unity, motivating a team to
release its full potential and realise its purpose, organising
and monitoring its performance —
these are not small tasks.
In your dreams
can bring the awareness,
skills, knowledge and experience which are key to doing these
things effectively. Our independence and professional detachment
means we remain focus on the outcome, rather than getting caught
up in the process.
Your first success has been recognising the
need for assistance.
Your second is having the good sense to call for it.
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"Much of our reaction to others comes from memory; it is stored
reaction, not fresh response at all."
~ William Isaacs
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