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The secret to getting your team engaged |
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Does getting your team engaged mean asking them to sign a formal document, or have them all stand and sing the company song?
Hardly (although I have heard of organisations doing just that). What it does mean is getting your team members on board by being attuned to their values and motives and aligning these with your team direction. How do you do this?
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Managing the performance of teams - two critical dimensions. |
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Often managers put a lot of effort into teamwork when perhaps it's not necessary. Is there more to teamwork than meets the eye?
John is confused. He prides himself as being a fair and reasonably good manager. This is not his first assignment as a manager, but it is certainly turning out to be his most challenging. John had taken over the sales team almost six months ago. Performance at the time was not up to standard and although individual performance has improved over the last six months, John just cannot get his sales people to work as a team. What is he missing out on, or not doing so well?
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Gaining commitment or compliance from your team? |
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Some guidelines for team decision making
Rob worked as a qualified, but junior physiotherapist in a busy hospital. He along with three of his colleagues were asked by their manager to discuss amongst themselves how they would like their rosters to be organised (i.e. who would do what shifts etc.) and put forward their proposal.
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Tour de Farce or Team de Force? |
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Do you manage a team or a group? The distinction is an important one, because there's no point in trying to develop a team ethos amongst a group of people who do no real need to work cooperatively together.
It's probably fair to say, that by now most followers and even casual observers of the recent Tour de France, expected the race to throw up some drug cheats. True to form, we were not disappointed. At the time of writing, four riders have now failed drug tests and been disqualified (not to mention being taken away by the French police!).
But the race has also thrown up an interesting question. Why did the teams of the first two disqualified riders continue in the race, while another, Sunier Duval-Scott withdraw all their riders? Commentators and keen followers of the sport are divided as to whether the two teams, while not legally obliged to do so, were morally obliged to withdraw.
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