{"id":3828,"date":"2010-03-03T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:06:10","slug":"teamwork-will-happen-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork Will Happen&#8230;If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3887\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/teamwork-lumaxart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3887 \" title=\"teamwork - lumaxart\" src=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/teamwork-lumaxart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from Lumaxart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Mark Twin would have said, &#8220;Everybody talks about teamwork but nobody does much about it.&#8221; Teamwork is the Holy Grail of manufacturing and sales\/marketing, as much as for sports. But, like the Holy Grail&#8211;and despite claims&#8211;few know exactly how to create it.<\/p>\n<p>Teamwork exists, but it cannot be sought directly and cannot be commanded or demanded. It occurs as a synergy when each person of the incipient team understands his\/her assigned task perfectly; knows how to do&#8211;and does&#8211;the assigned task in cooperation with others on the incipient team. Teamwork is essentially task-skills oriented. Our willingness to work with others depends on both their task skills and our trust in those intended- teammates&#8217; skills and commitment. Trust and teamwork cannot be coaxed or demanded or bludgeoned into being.<\/p>\n<p>Known&#8211;but unrecognized&#8211;corroborations from real life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decades ago, the Hawthorne Effect indicated that employees want to help you succeed. Stop exhorting people re: teamwork. Stop bullying. Stop wishing. Start teaching them how to perfect their assigned tasks and encourage their bonding. Then they&#8217;ll be ABLE to do the team&#8217;s assigned job!<\/li>\n<li>A football team coach (we consider a bully) depended on tongue-lashings to &#8220;energize&#8221; his players and keep them in line. One defiant player wore a sponsored headband, employing a loophole not appreciated by his coach or League&#8217;s advertising contract: a finger salute to the coach. But the player knew his task and did it well; and his teammates trusted him to do it. The team won their share but also lost many. That&#8217;s sports; not spectacular.<\/li>\n<li>A Chicago basketball team coach and Zen enthusiast &#8216;encouraged&#8217; and &#8216;inspired&#8217; his people, perfecting their task skills. They trusted him, their own skills, and their team-commitments. . .and won multiple national championships.<\/li>\n<li>When Kobe and Shaq had a long-running feud, the press knew; their early ballgames didn&#8217;t show it. Each man knew his task on the court. Each knew and valued the other&#8217;s skills and expected that he wouldn&#8217;t cheat the team in order to feed the feud. Attitudes changed; break-up followed loss of hoped-for fourth championship. Task skills weren&#8217;t the problem!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t &#8216;demand&#8217; teamwork. That&#8217;s the cliche theme of too many sales-related &#8220;motivational&#8221; films and programs. Film producers (and their staff or free-lance writers who lack corporate training skills) lean on teamwork cliche: &#8220;Just do it.&#8221; It&#8217;s safe&#8211;for\u00a0writers. But worthless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay to cheer. Cheers are no substitute for substance. See cheerleaders at every ballgame. How many points do they score?<\/p>\n<p>The single best-selling motivational film of all time is &#8220;You Pack Your Own Chute,&#8221; by Dr Eden Ryl. No &#8216;go-team-go.&#8217; Just a psychologist&#8217;s view of our need to take responsibility for our own actions. Serious stuff, intelligently presented. &#8220;Chute&#8221; is still selling, after 30 years. Ryl&#8217;s competitors point out that the film&#8217;s hair styles and clothes are old. Genius! Why not make a better film? PS: Greta Garbo&#8217;s and Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s hair styles and clothes are old, too. Moral: View any film before you book it!<\/p>\n<p>Performance skills are scarce. Apparently, expertise requires about 10,000 Hours of &#8220;deliberate practice,&#8221; according to recent literature and findings. Search &#8220;10,000 Hour Rule&#8221; on either &#8220;Advertising Age&#8221; magazine or Google.<\/p>\n<p>Strange ideas, ours? They work: They were developed with well over 12,000 hours of this blogger&#8217;s hands-on experience (office hours, plus reality-hours with conventions) and have been proved effective by clients, columns-readers, and other users.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Geneen (once of ITT) wrote &#8220;The Myth of Synergy.&#8221; Synergy is not a myth&#8211;Geneen was criticizing the managerial fad, not the phenomenon. Like teamwork, synergy cannot be sought directly. No synergy in your incipient team? Is their mutual-commitment genuine or just a slap-on-the-back-and-a-beer when watched?\u00a0 Given mutual concern for the welfare of competent incipient-team &#8216;mates&#8217; who commit, synergy can take over. Teamwork is an accumulation and accretion of smaller successes in task\/job competence&#8211;plus the will to do the job with others! Plus our trust in the whole.<\/p>\n<p>Because of numerous failures with empty, but expensive, electronics-based training and distance-learning programs, the meetings industry has been back-tracking. About yr2000, &#8220;Training&#8221; magazine began pushing that backtracking with challenges. Available:<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetingscavalier.com\/\">www.meetingsCavalier.com<\/a>; &#8216;Titles&#8217; page&#8217;s &#8216;Final Thoughts&#8217; segment cites many &#8220;Training&#8221; magazine attacks on the industry&#8217;s sacred cows, detailing the range of meetings-industry problems and biases.<\/p>\n<p>Control of your own meetings, training, team-building, and related group-communications programs depend on your brain, not your budget or technology.<\/p>\n<p>With those read-recommendations accomplished, you will have a fighting chance to construct program agendas, message\/contents and tools that themselves have a fighting chance to communicate, train. . .and build teams.<\/p>\n<p>At lower dollar cost. 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