It is easy to set up a team… You take a bunch of people, put them in a room, give them a simple task and tell them to crack on with it. Setting up a team is easy. But teamwork is a different matter Teamwork needs: An understanding of strengths An admission of weaknesses Openness […]
A Team Needs a Purpose
A team needs a purpose, a raison d’être, an objective. Without a purpose it isn’t really a team, just a bunch of people. If you agree, then it seems reasonable that the clearer that purpose, the stronger the teamwork. Is it clear what the purpose of your team is? Is it memorable? Can you write it […]
Team, Purpose, Method
There is a line of thought that there are three key factors at work in your organisation: Your team, the people and the relationships you have with them Your purpose, the reason your organisation exists Your method, the processes, systems and know how you use to get things done These 3 things inter link Without a […]
Gordon Ramsay, Darcey Bussell and Your Next Re-Org
When we are faced with a problem, maybe a new competitor, a cost challenge, a product launch or simply a new job, we marshal our forces to deal with it. We reform our departments Shuffle our management teams Hire the right talent Politely ask those who aren’t performing to the standard we expect to leave. […]
“Group Think” is no Laughing Matter
In the 1970’s the psychologist Irving Janis coined the term “group think” to explain why group pressure results in poor decisions, or, as he explained it, why groups show: A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement That is a little more erudite than the way I would put it, but the phrase […]