I have found in my consulting career that one of the biggest obstacles to teamwork is effective team communication. Solid team communication skills are usually lacking for a variety of reasons. I am outlining what I call my five B’s to effective team communication. If every team could master these five B’s a lot of problems could be avoided, especially in regards to work team communication
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A leader, for example, decides that his or her team needs to be more cohesive. It is agreed upon that the team will do some team building. So they hire a “team building expert” to come in and do some activities. The problem isn’t necessarily the activities, but the lack of planning and understanding what the teams needs are. Here are three important things to consider when doing team building activities.
Here is a little lite Friday humor. I thought you might enjoy this team building cartoon from ThingsBearsLove.com Watch for a post next week on the reason why such team building activities often fail and the three things you can do to improve your team building.
I have always believed that teams must spend focused time on strengthening relationships between team members.
