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You don’t have time to do teams<br />
Think of the best and most famous teams you know. What are they;<br />
football teams, rugby, dancing?<br />
It doesn’t matter; they will all have one thing in common. They will all<br />
spend more time practising what they do than doing what they do.<br />
Footballers train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, play on<br />
Saturday and have a day’s rest on Sunday. Well, maybe the days will<br />
change – but you get the idea.<br />
Top combat teams in the Army spend days, months even years in training.<br />
Fighter pilots, even actors rehearse.<br />
..... and you think you are working in a team? I don’t think so. Because you<br />
are a group of people working together doesn’t make you a team. Neither<br />
does an afternoon in a muddy field with a pile of sticks and a length of<br />
rope.<br />
Teams take years to build and you don’t have the time.<br />
Instead, try ‘shared motivation’.<br />
Ask the group, what each one of them needs to get out of being in the<br />
group. Some will say to save money, others will say to cut staff, others will<br />
say to create a better service and some will be there because they always<br />
come to meetings like this!<br />
Try and get an agreement on what a shared motivation might be. The two<br />
or maybe three things that, if you can achieve it, it will be a result.<br />
Remind everyone what it is, every time you meet.<br />
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