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In this work-related structure, context is the macro to micro factors that influence our attitudes such as time pressures to get a job done, our personal relationships outside of work (did we have a row with our partner before coming in to work etc), what is the prevailing organisational culture as well as the wider economic and political environment. What is more important for this discussion however is identity. Video Transcript: Hey there friend, it’s Stefanie Krievins with Pro Troublemaker Nation, where I share tips and encouragement, so you can fix your hot messes. And today, I wanna talk about what it means to really be a team player.
Work together as a team: Work together as a team. Don’t let the differences between individuals keep you from accomplishing your team’s goals. Onsuccessful teams, it is clear to all that leveraging the collective intelligence of the group is a better way to solve a problem than making it the sole responsibility of the department head even if the problem lies within just one department. Developing hunger and drive requires accountability and a structure that supports and motivates team members to continuously grow. Connecting to the mission of the team and using teammates to motivate and inspire each other are great ways for a team to thrive. The Shooter,” says he did not get protection for his family. That, ladies and gents, is a flat out lie. Why is it a lie? Because until he started opening his mouth, only a very precious few people knew who pulled the trigger. Anonymity is a powerful protection because your enemies cannot find you if they don’t know who you are.Teams are made up individuals working together to achieve, to deliver, to perform. If there is no individual, then what is there? Of course, it's overly simplistic to say that everyone will always feel included in a team, we don't live in a utopian world. But if you have an inclusive way of working, maybe you won't have to say it? Another classic theory, Meredith Belbin’s self-perception inventory, which first appeared in his book Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail(1981), defined the now well-known nine team-role behavioural styles. Belbin identified balance as the key enabler to team success, the most successful teams tended to be those with a mix of different individuals; what’s more Belbin argued that the optimum size for a team is only 4 people, any more than this meant that individuals did not work closely enough together to constitute a team and therefore were defined as a group!
Without wishing to belittle the draught animal, the implication seems to be that when a collection of dumb animals are harnessed together they collectively gain strength from working together and, whilst I wholeheartedly accept Aristotle’s paraphrased assertion that the sum of the parts should be greater than the whole. I think there’s something missing here. So rather grandiosely I’m going to attempt to redefine the word team as “ a collection of individuals who come together (or are brought together) to achieve a defined outcome and who engage with, and collaborate to achieve, delivery of that outcome”. Focus on the team: Focus on your team, not on individual needs. Focus on the team’s needs and the team’s goals. And this comes from these two clichés that are out there that I’ve seen recently and I know you’ve seen a million times. They kinda get under my skin. The first is, there’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’. I’m calling bullshit on that today and I’ll tell you why. Second, there, the meme is out there that you’ve probably seen and I’ve shared myself. There is an ‘I’ in ‘team’, it’s in the a-hole. That’s funny, right? But it’s also kinda rude, because why, if you show up as a team player, are you the a-hole?
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That competence and dedication are what makes them, regardless of branch, supreme badasses of violence, and destruction. They operate as teams and every man in that team has a place, a purpose, and a facet of the mission. To claim that one individual, who was just doing their assigned job, is more important than the others flies in the face of the entire ethos of the group.
So what part about this did Rob O’Neill miss while he spent 16 years as a SEAL? We don’t award medals or special accolades just for shooting people. That is part of the basic job description. Expecting something more, just because the target was important, means that you’re there for yourself and full of yourself. The idiom there is no I in team is, from a language point of view at least, beautifully balanced, it plays to the literal (the letter "I" is not present in the word "team") as well as the figurative (team members should not focus on their own personal "I", but solely on the collective whole), it’s the sort of thing marketeers love, however in my view it is inherently wrong and actually may be damaging to the full functioning of the team itself.No, there is an 'I' in team, there are lots of 'I's, and they need to be woven together. I've written before about the 3 questions every leader needs to ask on day 1 of creating a top performing, or healthy team:
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