Teams! The first thing comes to my mind is integrity, a team is nothing without co-operation and trust. Every team member has to realize the importance of his/her role and respect the same in others.
If you consider a group of individuals and assign them individual tasks which are subjected to complete one mission, it never works out, unless you motivate them enough to work together as a team to achieve the common objective. The individual supremacy is significant but without a team you just can't kiss success, our living legend Sachin Tendulkar is the proud epitome of the situation.
He delivered and delivered and after 28 years Indian National Cricket Team was able to grab the most prestigious cup in the cricketing world.
So we have reached the consensus as why teams are important, but the lingering question prevails , HOW?
So I come up with a 5 step plan.
Ok, enough for me, here is what one of the best football managers, Arsene Wenger, had to say about a team.
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
As rightly put by Mr. Wenger, a team is a heart of an organization, it is like a woman, is capable of doing wonderful things.
You have to be extra cautious around a woman and expect unbelievable results, just like a team. You dare to challenge a woman's patience because "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" , similarly, as a team lashes out, the miscreant can only look for an ephemeral shelter. In a team there is no one protagonist, no I, there is only we and the whole team becomes the ultimate protagonist in the aforementioned field , be it sports, corporate ,entertainment,etc.
And so I leave you with this joyous successful team which epitomizes the true values of a team :
If you consider a group of individuals and assign them individual tasks which are subjected to complete one mission, it never works out, unless you motivate them enough to work together as a team to achieve the common objective. The individual supremacy is significant but without a team you just can't kiss success, our living legend Sachin Tendulkar is the proud epitome of the situation.
He delivered and delivered and after 28 years Indian National Cricket Team was able to grab the most prestigious cup in the cricketing world.
So we have reached the consensus as why teams are important, but the lingering question prevails , HOW?
So I come up with a 5 step plan.
- Gather the team members and do an ice breaking session where the team members get an idea about what they are getting into and with whom they are supposed to be working.
- Identify a leader who gels comfortably with all of the team members and speaks only wisdom.
- The major objective or the common goal has to be further subdivided into smaller achievements and thresholds so that the team has a chronological order of going up.
- After completion of each task or subdivision, the entire team must sit and discuss as how the entire process went.In other words have a debrief session.
- There should be no filter to discard ideas from any of the team members, every team member is equal including the leader/captain . One for all and all for one.
Ok, enough for me, here is what one of the best football managers, Arsene Wenger, had to say about a team.
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
As rightly put by Mr. Wenger, a team is a heart of an organization, it is like a woman, is capable of doing wonderful things.
You have to be extra cautious around a woman and expect unbelievable results, just like a team. You dare to challenge a woman's patience because "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" , similarly, as a team lashes out, the miscreant can only look for an ephemeral shelter. In a team there is no one protagonist, no I, there is only we and the whole team becomes the ultimate protagonist in the aforementioned field , be it sports, corporate ,entertainment,etc.
And so I leave you with this joyous successful team which epitomizes the true values of a team :
