How to Build a Team: Using Vision, Commitment, and Trust

1. How to Build a Team: Using Vision, Commitment, and Trust Amanda Cummings, Kelly McCrary

2. Realize what Teamwork can do for You • The moment you start doing anything at all with another person, you’ve established a team • Productive teamwork moves you toward challenge, through change, with more confidence • Working well on any team generates energy and enthusiasm for life

3. Don’t be Quick to Judge Skills • You can be a part of a team even if you think you don’t have the “skills” • When choosing a team or evaluating a team realize different people bring different skills

4. VisionWhat will it look like when we get there? • Vision means being able to excite the team with large, desired outcomes (goals) • Project a goal that has value to the team • A goal must contain: • challenge • appeal to personal pride • An opportunity to make a difference • Picture Success!

5. Commitment • Can be a dangerous and misunderstood concept • Pre-commitment process will help overcome commitment obstacles • Eliminate pressure to commit • Define expectations and success will soar

6. Trust • Trust means more confidence in team leadership and vision • When trust prevails, team members are more willing to go through a difficult process • Leadership commitment to vision • List the unknowns • Assess worst case scenarios • Research the unknowns

7. Inclusion • Getting others to commit to the team effort • Small groups that facilitate through give and take • Communicate the vision, the commitment, and elicit and address people’s doubts • Leaders will achieve inclusion by: • Non-assumptive question, • good listening • directed response

8. Nextel • Inclusion & Diversity • A sense of creativity and innovation that generates a unique connection between the workplace and the marketplace. • http://www.advertisementave.com/tv/ad.asp?adid=348

9. Finalize your Plan • Establish a balanced strategy for reaching the committed vision • Once you set the groundwork teammates will be enthusiastic and cooperative • Use team consensus to make decisions as opposed to issuing orders • Diverse views can help or hurt a team • Communicate, communicate, communicate!

10. Sources • www.learningcenter.net • http://www2.sprint.com/mr/aboutsprint.do Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results –Andrew Carnegie