Business Development
Food for thought …
• 81% of the Fortune 500 companies are building at least partially team-based organizations
• More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use some formal work teams as part of their operations
So, what is a ‘Team’?
A Team is not just a group of people for administrative convenience.
A Team is a group of people coming together to collaborate. Where this collaboration is to reach a shared goal or task for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
It is a group with a higher degree of interdependence geared towards the achievement of a common goal or completion of a common task.
There is a lesson we can learn from geese which provides a perfect example for the importance of team work and how it can have a profound and powerful effect on any form of personal or business endeavour.
Have you ever noticed that geese always fly in a V-formation when flying south for the winter? It’s a simple science that we can learn from these extraordinary birds which can be related to the corporate environment and building effective teams.
BY STEVE RE
24 | TRAINING MAGAZINE MIDDLE EAST FEB 2014
DEVELOPING
EFFECTIVE TEAMS
BY DIAHANN CARROLL D'SOUZA