What is teamwork and how does it really work?\u00a0 This may sound like a very obvious question, but I have found many that do not really know how to work in teams and what teamwork really means.\u00a0 So let me throw my thoughts into the air and see where they land.<\/p>\n
Good teams work toward a common goal.<\/strong> This may seem like a commonly understood perspective, but I have seen teams drift off track and loose sight of the goal and some that do not agree on the goal at all. So I suggest that everyone first discuss the goal and output of the team.\u00a0 What questions are we going to answer?\u00a0 What output are we creating?\u00a0 These should be the first questions asked and the ones that are reviewed from time to time to see if you are still heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n Good teams share common methods.<\/strong> They are not little robots,programmed to do just one thing, but they do share a common approach to getting things done.\u00a0 Teams may not start this way, but they need to agree on how the goal will be reached.\u00a0 Some teams have subcommittees.\u00a0 Some do everything together.\u00a0 Some teams do everything in the meetings and nothing outside and some task groups or individuals to work between meetings.\u00a0 But the teams that operate the best are those that first agree on how they will tackle the process of reaching the goal.\u00a0 Sometimes the process is defined up front and other times it is defined as you move forward.\u00a0 Either way works as long as the team understands who is doing what.<\/p>\n Good teams document the process and the results.<\/strong> The goal is not the only milestone that is achieved as teams progress along.\u00a0 Many landmarks are passed as teams move toward the goal. Many processes are defined as you move along.\u00a0 You need to write these down in some form of minutes.\u00a0 It may be formal or informal, but you need to document what is a greed to so that everyone stays on the same page.\u00a0 Writing it down and distributing it causes you to clarify and review as you go.\u00a0 Everyone contributes and reads the minutes or notes from a meeting and they are verified so that all agree to the decisions that are written and not just what they think was said.<\/p>\n Good teams work as a team.<\/strong> Another obvious statement, but so often not applied.\u00a0 Every member of the team stands or falls on the collective outcome of the team.\u00a0 But many bring personal agendas and goals that counteract that effort.\u00a0 Those team members can work contrary to the overall goal and seek individual goal, departmental goals or even seek to avoid the main goal.\u00a0 It all happens as others are working in one direction, others are moving in the opposite direction.\u00a0 Ferreting out these silent agendas may be tough, but they need to be uncovered and addressed or corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is teamwork and how does it really work?\u00a0 This may sound like a very obvious question, but I have found many that do not really know how to work in teams and what teamwork really means.\u00a0 So let me throw my thoughts into the air and see where they land. Good teams work toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,65],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","category-leadership"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}