Team Building Harare, Zimbabwe

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BUILDING WINNING TEAMS THROUGH TEAM COHESION

I have seen those who bake cakes mixing the different ingredients in a mixer. The process takes time and when it’s done, the eggs cannot be separated from the sugar nor from the salt. The final product is so different from the individual ingredients that would have gotten into the cake making process. Anyone who has also tasted honey can concur that the flowers from which the pollen was drawn and the sweetness that honey is are worlds apart. In the same mold as the baking of cakes and the making of honey, team cohesiveness is the strength and interconnectedness of relations between team members that makes the team a unified whole. The constituent parts that make up the team cannot be untangled as the team functions as a unified unit with little, if any point where there is a weak link.

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BUILDING WINNING TEAMS THROUGH COMMON GOALS

When the goal is not known, a lot of energy can be wasted in the pursuit of other agenda not in line with why the team exists in the first place. Great teams place a priority in building a common goal and communicating it to very member. In teams that have developed the habit of winning together, the WE is always bigger than the ME of each individual member. The emphasis on the WE comes from knowing the WHY of the team, which is addressed by the unifying force – the common goal. The existence of the common goal makes the entire team work towards the same thing.  It is challenging and frustrating to the team if each member feels that they are more important than the team or their personal agenda supersedes the team’s goal. The team should be seen for what it is – always bigger than the individual team members regardless of how talented the team member might be individually, cementing the fact that there is no I in a Team.

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BUILDING WINNING TEAMS – THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP

Effective team leaders align a group of people towards a common purpose. It’s been said time without number that it rises and falls on leadership. Leaders are the unifying force that rally the team forward through the establishment of sound systems that act as a unifying force for the good of everyone. In many sporting teams, the coach is fired when the team fail to perform to the expected standards. In most case, in an interesting turn of events, positive results are realized upon the coming aboard of a new leader. This goes to show the effect that leadership has on the team.

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ADDRESSING PERFORMANCE ISSUES THROUGH TEAM BUILDING INTERVENTIONS

It doesn’t matter the line of work that you find yourself in, be it a large corporate, government departments, a small start-up, sporting team or school, teamwork has always proved to be the real game changer for success. Having a team of highly talented individuals is one thing but producing the best results from them

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