Tips For Smart Team Building

Jul 13
08:16

2011

Roberto Sedycias

Roberto Sedycias

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When starting a business venture, a team is the most important part of the entire thing. Here are some tips to make sure that the team you choose is the team to take you to success.

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The first and most important thing about the team building is to make sure that the players are good people who you can rely on. When forming a team,Tips For Smart Team Building Articles it's best to choose people that you know fairly well, at least the financial histories and educational backgrounds and fortes, so that you know what assets they bring to the table from the get go. This will help you establish kind of a compartmentalized distribution of duties within the team.

For example, if you are starting up a new internet company, you can do this by figuring out what roles you need. You will need someone with a strong business background, who understands numbers and figures, you will need someone savvy with computers and structures digital so that you can have someone build the site and then you will need to have someone creative who can handle the advertising. Also someone who has business contacts might be a valuable addition to the mix. All of these components will ensure that the team is equipped with strong players that will make a dynamic team that brings a variety to the table.

Once you have the team established, you want to make sure that you develop a sense of trust among all of you. This can be achieved with team building exercises, such as group retreats, trust building workshops, and Ropes courses that force a team to come together and use one another to solve problems and come up with solutions to difficult obstacles. Putting your team through this kind of workshop will be a great way to instill trust in each other and also to help you all learn little details about each other, such as working styles, tendencies, habits, and methods of coming up with ideas that can prove useful to you. It's important to spend some quality time with your team, and not just while focusing on your business, because you want to become a kind of family that can turn to one another in times of need and really be assured of one another's loyalty.

There are a number of games and activities that force you all to work with one another. For example, you can do the desert island game where all players must come together to decide upon just seven things for survival, and it will be a good way for all of you to work together and consider the pros and cons of various items for your survival on the island. Also, you can make lists writing out the positive attributes of each other and then anonymously share them so that you have an idea how your team regards you. These games are sometimes a lot of fun, especially if you go on team building courses that require physical hurdles to be crossed, or if you take hikes where all of you are tied together, or if you row a boat across a lake and race other teams, these will help you all work together and use each other to achieve a goal.

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