“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we;” they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit…This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
- Peter Drucker, Management consultant
At the center of every high performance team is a common purpose – a mission that rises above and beyond each of the individual team members. To be successful, the team’s interests and needs come first. This requires “we-opic” vision (“What’s in it for we?”), a challenging step up from the common “me-opic” mind-set (simple truth blog).
Below are some powerful tips:
1. Tap the unique potential, inputs and talents of the individuals on your team;
2. Create more intrigue, involvement and interaction among team members;
3. Inspire true, high performance teamwork and synergy;
4. Cultivate an interdependent, we-opic and shared vision;
5. Exercise intuition to develop an environment of imagination, ingenuity and innovation;
6. Build team intelligence;
7. Foster team integrity.
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi
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