Team are built through communication.
Dawn mentioned to me earlier that the team she felt in Isun is at the surface area because we still tend to keep to ourselves, and work amongst ourselves. I find it incurably true for me because I am one who tends to want to accomplish everything by myself because I am the least collective. If I want to master personal excellence, I must prove to myself that I am able to lead a team in the future and this has got to start with me opening up and getting clear two-way communications. I like how James Skinner put it, “The Language of Team is the language of dream and is fundamentally different from the language of “Me.” ”
To change and be part of an excellent team, I must start to phrase words differently so as to improve in our dialogue and garner the right energy in the team. Whenever there’s praises and celebration, I have to start to use the term “YOU”, for example, “You are Awesome!”, “You did Great!”. People love to work where they are praised and appreciated. Although words might not mean a lot but we have to learn how to celebrate little successes, to build on the team fighting spirit and the desirability to achieve more successes together.
“Catch people doing things right. Give the credit away.”
When there is criticism to be given, the language of team is “I.”
For example, “I should have noticed.”, “I need to take the responsibility for this.”
If I ever want to be at the top and lead a team, I must first learn how to take responsibilities, admit to my mistake and take the blame. This is where we seek excellence in ourselves.
When it’s time to share the benefits, the language of team is “We” and “Us”. For example, “What a tremendous victory we have one.” Or “Let us share this together.” The reason being, teams win together. It is as simple as that!
I think the main essence of this review on teams is about voicing out and getting every single member in the team involved, be engaging and as leaders or leaders wannabes, we must learn how to captivate our team spirit, get voices in the team for feedbacks and opinions, this is crucial because only in this form, will we learn amongst the areas we need to or can be improved. Of course, last but not least, listening plays a great deal. Communication in a team cannot be hierarchical or else it will be unhealthy and team spirit cannot be displayed. Listening plays a great deal as well because if we only voice out concerns, nothing is going to change if we don’t listen and act execute the actions to change. We have to seek clarification in communications when we are listening so that we are all aligned towards our goal in the company according to our interests. All in all, when we are in a team, the key to a successful and a closely bonded team is a two-way communication, calling for personal responsibilities, celebrate little successes, comprehension by listening and appreciation. We must learn how to recognise efforts made by others!
I will start to execute this from now onwards so that I will be ever ready to lead my future math team in Isun!
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