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Team Building Team Challenges

Team Building Team Challenges

Today, quality initiatives, superior service, cost of doing business and succeeding at doing business are commonly shared ownership issues. Reliance on individual experience and competencies and even greater reliance on fragmented cross-organizational work units can actually prove prohibitive to achieving these.

Proven, positive strategies should be applied to influence people to work together, together towards end results, common purpose and mutual gain. These strategies and this direction are gaining solid ground and supporting overall organizational framework goals. It is a fact that businesses of all sizes experience greater tangible payoffs and reach levels of optimal productivity when people work together.

Teamwork is all about spirit, attitude, and enthusiasm. In the corporate sense, people are more inclined to buy into quality outcomes; it gives everyone a sense of pride and companies realize the positive effects on bottom line.

From the earliest days of civilization, the hunters and gatherers demonstrated effectively how working in groups brought greater abundance into their lives. The underlying strength behind every team is the diversity each member brings to it.

This blending of talent, attributes and experience supports a common and shared sense of purpose: that being for the betterment of the business. Teams become both efficient and effective in accomplishing work and achieving results. They become effective at doing the right things and efficient at doing things right…

Team members become empowered through their commitment to participate, more co-operative through their intra-dependency and involvement, more communicative and informed which raises their level of contribution overall. This type of involvement and participation ensures and strengthens a commitment to corporate values and vision. They see the bigger picture and realize their role is an integral part of reaching corporate objectives. Teams ultimately become accountable and responsible to implement, measure and monitor results. A current job description for a team member could read as follows: “Use Your Head” and “Make Yourself Valuable.”

Successful results and attainment of ownership goals are testimony to the impact that teams and teamwork have to produce significant gains in productivity and business success. Action plans are needed to build team concepts. Action plans take into consideration the values that drive the business and the strategies necessary to support them. Team concepts are thriving, strong, and continually striving to develop people in the pursuit of growth and prosperity.

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Dianne Crampton

Dianne Crampton is an executive leadership coach, team culture consultant, author and president of TIGERS Success Series, Inc. Dianne has been helping CEO's and Executives connect their employees to their core values and goals for over 20 years using the trademarked TIGERS team culture process, which stands for trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. To download a free white paper on behaviors that build strong teams and behaviors that will predictably tear them down go here.

Dianne's contribution to the 2010 Pfeiffer Consulting Journal (an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Publishers) entitled TIGERS Hearted Teams is available in November 2009.  Her new book TIGERS Among Us: 5 Winning Business Team Cultures And Why, Three Creeks Publishing will release in March 2010.  To receive publishing discounts, subscribe to the free TigerTracks Newsletter here.

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(Visit Warren's Website) Warren Coughlin is the Canadian Coach of the Year with Action International and selected from the over 900 coaches internationally for a Global Action Man Award and a North American Action Man Award. His experience and his passion have allowed his clients to experience 300 and 400% growth, create stronger teams, reach for bigger dreams and gain skills they can use for as long as they run businesses. He is now challenging all Toronto area Entrepreneurs to double or triple your revenue (or more)! You get to enjoy that growth, receive a free vacation and here's the kicker - he's going to show you exactly how to do it! It’s only $50 to participate in the Bennett Gold Action Challenge, to learn techniques of growth, to participate in an ongoing teleseminar series, to receive tools for success and to have access to great additional learning and networking opportunities. If you really want to take your business to the next level, visit www.bennettgold.ca/challenge.

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