Teams are not born, they are built. They are created through the collection of personalities and leaders as well as through the active participation of team members in creating and protecting the culture.
While it is easy to say these things, it does require active and real commitment to achieve. Many companies struggle to find a way to get their employees to be resourceful, passionate, onboard and up-to-speed as effectively as possible.
The issue is rarely that there aren’t stated or explicit expectations and communication, but rather, that personalities and trust take time to build and mesh. People don’t automatically become a team, rather they combine over time by working together and learning to manage, collaborate and connect. To achieve this teams, need a common goal and direction.
The challenge is that while companies can offer a vehicle, the vision and direction of an entire organisation, even for much of the leadership can make setting a goal challenging and overwhelming for one person to contextualise. Likewise, people experience problems on a personal level not in the scale or scope of an organisation unless they are founder or chairperson. So…how do you create ownership and drive that allows a team to be built.
You bring “personal” digestible problems to the table and let teams work through them. This simple approach come from the basic idea: It’s easier to solve other people’s problems than our own.
Most people have no issue communicating an issue or challenge but solving it can seem insurmountable to the person experiencing it. Instead by shifting to solve other team members problems for them, people learn and engage creatively with each other. Furthermore, the organisation sees new ideas and solutions, trust is built between participants and people become invested in seeing their ideas and solutions implemented.
This programme intends to help the participants connect a personal level, contextualise culture, share their challenges, collaboratively create solutions, and contextualise. Ultimately, giving everyone a common set of actionable goals and expectations to act on beyond the programme.
