The Right Stuff

To have any chance whatsoever of establishing themselves as a team, a group must share a set of reasonably common objectives. I do not mean the kind of 'formal' objectives that we are becoming so hung up on these days, but they want to 'do' the same things, that they are headed in the same general direction. One of the tricks in achieving this commonality is picking the 'right' people. Some people, for example, do not want to take risks and do 'new` things.

The Right Stuff

To have any chance whatsoever of establishing themselves as a team, a group must share a set of reasonably common objectives. I do not mean the kind of 'formal' objectives that we are becoming so hung up on these days, but they want to 'do' the same things, that they are headed in the same general direction. One of the tricks in achieving this commonality is picking the 'right' people. Some people, for example, do not want to take risks and do 'new` things.

What are teams like?

In order to better understand teamwork it is worth considering some of the things that make teams or that demonstrate how teams react;

The most important thing about any team is that its members will have been through things together, shared experiences. It is these shared experiences which truly bond all the members of a team to each other. It is the thing that separates the team from others around them. It is the reason that successful teams typically come together in times of adversity, that they as a group will have faced common struggles of some kind. Think back over your own experiences and you will find that the times when you faced most difficulties was the time when you felt most part of a team.