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Teambuilding
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People who work together in a group, whether it is family or not, work best as a team. If they can form a team, they can be relaxed, efficient, cooperative, reasonable, complementary, and oriented toward the same goals. It provides a good quality of life and the best possible product.
Everyone knows this, but most do not achieve it. The alternative is people working together competitively, tensely, and contentiously. This leads to wanting to look good at the expense of another, even wanting another person to fail. It can lead to arguing over non-consequential things and making the workplace uncomfortable, lengthening production time, and producing an inferior product. Most of us are aware of how easy it is for any group that has to spend their time together to descend into this kind of atmosphere. People think it’s human nature.
The Lovins Group does not believe it’s necessary to live and work that way. A group can build itself into a team by learning and implementing certain principles.
COMMUNICATION
Instead of harboring grievances and grudges people can resolve, as a group, to express dissatisfaction or disappointment and to listen to one another.
GOALS
A group can purposefully set goals they all agree on and decide to move always in the direction of these goals, helping one another to achieve them.
REWARDS
These can be a system of rewards for the entire group when the goals are met.
CONFLICT
Conflict always arises. It can be resolved with determination and good will. Anything can be said, if it is said sensitively. “Mean what you say, and say what you mean, but don’t say it mean” as the saying goes. If a conflict cannot be resolved, there needs to be a respected person they can go to for help in resolving the conflict. There has to be a spirit of compromise, a willingness to understand one another, and a personal commitment to the integrity of the group.
The Lovins Group perseveres to help people who work together establish teamwork. |
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