Welcome to WM8C's Team Building Guide
Team Building Survival Tests Article
. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
You may also listen to this article by using the following controls.
Building Teams --You see it everywhere
from: Stephanie Tuia
A college football team has it. A corporation has it. Even a growing family has it. These three organizations share a common desire to build their prospective teams. For example, a college football team continually needs to bring in new players to replace the graduating players. A corporation builds its team to help it grow and meet the needs of clients. A young married couple who are having children are building their own family team. Each of these results has a different outcome. In the end, the goal is to work together, help each other, and collectively reach a higher level of performance. Whatever team you are currently involved with, it is surprising at how much organization is needed to build a great team. Furthermore, the following teams have their own equally important approach as to how they successfully build their prospective teams.
First of all, let’s focus on a college football team. Unlike professional sports, coaches have roughly a four-year time period to retain their players. After that period, an athlete’s eligibility is complete due to graduation. In order to fill the void left by graduated players, coaches rely heavily on recruiting new players to continue building the football team. Coaches look for the best athletes who have the capability to surpass those athletes before them, so that they can continue a winning team. Coaches face a challenging role to rebuild their program, depending on their previous team’s success. At the end of the football season, coaches must take the initiative to re-build their team each year to fill vacancies so their team can move forward again.
During college, I interned for a public relations firm, and on my first day, my supervisor welcomed me with an e-mail that read, Welcome to the team! At first, I felt that only organized athletics reserved the right to use the word team. On a mature level, I’ve realized companies stay healthy when they implement a team-like atmosphere in the workplace. Being on a team brings out motivation and competition in employees, and also helps them to unite, identify their roles on the team, and produce stronger results. I’ve attended many career sessions and with every employer I’ve met, they have emphasized their desire to hire college graduates to join their team. Like a college sports team, an employer needs to recruit prospective candidates to fulfill roles in their company.
Many companies utilize employees as team members because it is a fitting approach when they are competing in an industry. For example, popular competing organizations such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola use the team approach in the workplace. The work environment at Pepsi might have some teams who are directly competing against some rival teams at Coca-Cola. This competition and approach is healthy because it energizes employees to become active team members and promoters for their brand. As mentioned before, being on a team helps members to identify their individual roles in the company and along with motivating them in a competing industry.
You can apply team building skills in any organization. For example, universities that are accepting incoming freshmen will want candidates who will help maintain or even raise the academic standards for greater respect and reputation of their school. Those freshmen are building the university team to improve performance and image. Finally, a chairman will seek out candidates to fulfill his board to bring in fresh ideas and insight to his committee. The chairman is simply building his team for support. In any circumstance, building teams will build a foundation for any organization that wants to progress and move forward. With a purpose and vision to improve your organization, building your own team and improving team interaction will help you achieve outstanding results.
About the Author
Stephanie Tuia is a Client Account Specialist with 10x Marketing – More Visitors. More Buyers. More Revenue. For more information on building teams, visit CMOE.
Team Building Survival Tests News
Army recruits take on training trails
ROTC combat water survival course tests cadets’ mettle, prepares for officer leadership Most students worry about surviving classes, work and the tedium of life, but for the Army students in the Army Recruit Officer Training Corps (ROTC), survival includes combat on land and in water. On Thursday, approximately 60 cadets met at the pool in [...]
Read more...Breath of Life Personal Profiles
The trip from Hanoi to Bac Giang City takes less than two hours, but the two cities feel worlds apart. Located northeast of Vietnam’s seat of government and culture, Bac Giang is the provincial capital of a largely rural, impoverished region.
Read more...Aussies win first hour after lunch
RICKY Ponting and Michael Clarke are building a good partnership after lunch on the first day of the fourth Test in Adelaide.
Read more...Runs starting to flow in Adelaide
RICKY Ponting and Michael Clarke are building a good partnership after lunch on the first day of the fourth Test in Adelaide.
Read more...Iran ‘will blink’ if sanctions hit rapidly, so war probably won’t be needed: Israeli Minister
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon added the key point of international concern should be the amount of enriched uranium Iran has managed to bury at its best sheltered nuclear site south of Tehran
Read more...Liverpool Live Blog: Dirk Kuyt, Craig Bellamy and Andy Carroll Score Second Half Goals, Reds Cruise to 3-0 Victory
Final, 3-0 Liverpool: The Reds are the emphatic victors over the crisis-stricken Wolverhampton Wanderers. Carroll, Bellamy and Kuyt scored second half goals that stand as the difference in the score-line. The Reds got off to a slow start, and their patient approach allowed Wolves to gain a measure of confidence. The hosts did a bit of attacking of their own, testing Reina on a few occasions in ...
Read more...A Lake District hike for softies
A wild camping trip in the Lake District is designed to take you out of your comfort zone – and with unpredictable weather and testing terrain, it certainly delivers I'm bursting. Crossing my legs. Trying not to picture rivers or waterfalls. I'll do anything to avoid leaving my tent for a pee. It's not just the biblical rain lashing against the canvas; it's the chilling reports of a ghostly ...
Read more...