Understand that a team is more than the sum of individual skill sets and abilities. It is a living breathing cultural organism.

Team building is one of the most important parts of 10xing success in your department or business. People are simply more willing to work together, when the atmosphere and culture encourages it. For many organizations this is a necessity for the business to run well. When everyone gets along, things just go better, everything runs smoother like a well oiled machine. 

When a team works as a collective unit, the overall customer experience is better, employee retention is higher, service is stronger and customer satisfaction is optimized. When employees are happy, customers are happy, and the business grows.

Team building is anything but simple. 

Understand that a team is more than the sum of individual skill sets and abilities. It is a living breathing cultural organism that can be responsible for the success or failure of your entire business unit or organization.  - Scott Douglas Clary

It is not something that can be done overnight or done ad hoc. Nor is it something you can force people to do. 

So, the question becomes, how can you effectively build your team to encourage them to bond and develop working relationships that are positive and conducive to workplace success? 

Here are some ideas:

• Set the example yourself. As the leader of the team, it is up to you to provide a good relationship with your team and organization stakeholders. You want them to feel comfortable with you as well as with others. Don’t favor some over others and don’t become too friendly either. There is a fine line between knowing your team, and being a leader and being a friend or a buddy. Understand the difference, as the latter will isolate members as well as make your own job more difficult to do properly.

• You can encourage relationships to work by fostering a team-driven, group success style of work. Make sure that the group goals are established and that each team player is aware of them. They should know that you want a group goals to be achieved, but also help them understand how individual goals and contributions effectively lends cadence to, and will help achieve group goals.

• Provide your team with opportunities to get to know each other. Take the team out to dinner. Encourage team building activities. Encourage a work hard play hard mentality that fosters personal, professional and team growth.

When team building is successful, not only will the business run better, but you will build a stronger culture and foster individual employee growth as well through a culture of success, growth and psychological security.

Understand that a team is more than the sum of individual skill sets and abilities. It is a living breathing cultural organism that can be responsible for the success or failure of your entire business unit or organization. 

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Scott Douglas Clary, MBA

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time. ― Rich Lesser

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