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Productive
Teams
Setting
the Standards
By:
Deborah G. Estes, Ed.D.
As businesses strive to deliver higher quality goods and
services in less time and with fewer resources, more managers now
realize the importance of teamwork to accomplish company goals.
As a result, many business leaders place a greater focus on
building a productive team of employees. Such an approach makes
sense. After all, a unified group of people working towards a
common goal can generally outperform a solo worker. Unfortunately,
the manner in which many managers build teams is far from
effective.
Too many business leaders believe that a single day retreat
or an in-house training session will be the cure-all to their
teambuilding needs. What they fail to realize is that developing a
productive team requires more than a bandage approach or a single
day motivational message. True teambuilding starts at the
company’s core and permeates every department, division,
manager, and employee.
When teambuilding strategies fail to delve beyond the
surface or are not in place at all, trust among employees
declines, which causes morale to drop and ...
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