Why Vision Is Essential To Teamwork
Why Teamwork Fails Without A Vision
Working as a team doesn’t come naturally to most people. It can be very challenging to subordinate yourself to another person, or to a bigger picture goal. Teamwork means working together for a larger cause, something bigger than just you. The number one desire of all people is to have a feeling of importance, which is an individualized need, making teamwork type sacrifices challenging, which is the basis of why teamwork requires a big picture target in order to succeed.
Why Teamwork Can Be Challenging
In a structured traditional business, at times teamwork is more simple, since
most positions have a clear set of objectives or tasks to achieve, ensuring a business operates as it should. Even in that atmosphere, teamwork is met with rivalry from individuals vying for a promotion, to earn a raise, or simply to get noticed .
Now ponder professional sports, where the person who scores the most, or has the most acknowledgment gets the most compensation, the most bonuses, the most endorsements. Amidst all the individual opportunity, here’s reality – if teams don’t have a winning season, if a business isn’t profitable, if a charitable organization can’t reach it’s target, the consequence is failure for the team as a whole, as well as the players with super size egos. All being the foundational reason why vision is required for any team’s success.
Regardless of the type of business, you want to understand that in order for any team to flourish and succeed, there is a goal bigger than your own, and the whole team have got to work together for the shared goal. It is the duty of the leader to cast the vision, to build unity, help the team understand what every person must give up in order to go up.
If you are like me, you started a home business with the intent of improving your personal situation. Whether you started to make that career change and replace your job, to pay off debt, to spend more time with your family, to finally be able to take your kids or grand kids on vacation, to devote more to charities you are passionate about, or merely to just get paid what you are worth.
No matter what your motivation is, please know, you are also one piece of an entire success picture, including others you may work with, and the company as a whole. When the larger organization succeeds, it gives each person more opportunity to open the door for even more people. When a company is booming as a whole, it has more to offer in incentives for people. It will have more ability to produce more goods or services to bring to the marketplace. See if the company fails, everyone fails, in that moment. On the other hand, when each individual strives for excellence, is accountable, then victory is attained for all.
Why Teamwork Needs Your Leadership
Six action items for developing your vision and winning team:
1. Create the team’s vision.
2. Examine where you are, so you can figure out what it will take to reach the goal.
3. Determine existing and needed resources to reach your target.
4. Call upon needed team members or support people.
5. Set aside your personal agendas
6. Be eager to sacrifice for the team and goals.
Victory cannot be attained with teamwork unless you take “me” out the picture. If you focus more on giving praise and recognition to your team, rather than taking it, you can establish a culture of loyalty, where true teamwork prevails. Reaching your potential, and helping others reach theirs, is precisely why teamwork requires a big picture vision. The fruit of teamwork is victory, because if the team succeeds, the individuals succeed.
To YOUR Success!
Jodi Ouellette
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