I apologize for not posting since mid-November. The long and the short of it is that I wasn't ready to allocate the time required to accomplish my goal here. Which is to help people learn how to develop an entire team of top quality achievers.
It is difficult for most team leaders to visualize a team without a few weak links. They have never seen it happen, so why should such a fantasy even be discussed? The topic immediately creates resistance and the defenses go up as they run for cover.
I hope to get people to understand it is simply a matter of learning how to get people involved in a team project. The "Entire Team of Top Quality Achievers Project." One of the acronyms for team says it accurately. Together Everyone Achieve More, so why not focus on learning how to help each other improve? And, in the process, create an entire team of top quality achievers.
It's not done with a quick fix. It takes a bit of "sneaking up" on your team before you get them interested in a different (better) way of interacting with each other. It requires, as my "Mission" found in the upper right hand corner of this page states, people, communication, and persuasion skills. In other words, they need to be "programmed" for awhile before you sell them on creating an extraordinary team.
(The post below is being posted again so it will be in the Archives for February, 2007, my first month of frequent posting.)
I thank John (no last name given) for his insightful and thoughtful email advising me on a number of things that I was unaware of. Life, as we all know, is just one learning experience after another. Thanks John, I love suggestions, criticism, any input that improves any situation.
- Blog Presentation: The purple and gold of my beloved Washington Huskies is gone and replaced a new look.
- Blog Purpose: Through frequent posting and podcasting I hope to provide frontline managers and supervisors, who are seldom trained in effective team motivation, team building, and team achievement skills, how to become respected team LeaderManagerCoaches.
- Business Plans: I have been semi-retired for ten years, but I am up and running once again.
- Management Training: I have a new business, OneByOne Team Achievement, that teaches a simple, enjoyable, well-received system team leadership program. (See "Book" below.)
- Management Videos: The program will initially be taught in a seminar "conversation" or leadership coaching, but I plan to produce and market a video of the seminar so I can concentrate on working with businesses in their efforts to bring team pride, spirit, synergy, and chemistry to their frontline staffs.
- Book: I have been working on a book, off and on, for years. I hope to publish The Excitement Program: How to attract, or develop, energize, lead, and retain an entire team of engaged achievers next summer or fall. A short 100 page book that gives a step-by-step way to create an extraordinary business team that enjoys working with each other and helping each other learn how to achieve and succeed. In other words, the book is about how to create a team project that engages everyone in the success of the team and the business and, in the process, gives the team an awareness of how to motivate, instill mindsets, and create a "Best of the Best Mission."
Everything you see here and on the OneByOne Team Achievement website is my work. My partner (at his day job full time-until OBOTA is generating income) and I are currently involved in a no-budget enterprise, so I apologize for the homemade look, but that's what it is. When the big bucks start coming in we'll bring in the "Pros from Dover" to handle our presentations-website, blog, white papers, manifesto, book editor, etc.
My skills are modest in those areas, but what I do know is how to do is inspire a group of people to work well together. To a small degree I transform a business team into a sports team. To a larger degree I use the learning experiences of the U.S. Army and a year in Vietnam, four years with J.C. Penney, and the many mentors I have been fortunate to have worked with. Especially my first sales manager, Denver Large, who taught me how create a fun-filled, energetic, engaging environment for a sales or customer service team.
The OneByOne Team Achievement program instills in employees a passion for daily learning, day after day, one by one, that becomes a learning-focused culture and leads to extraordinary individual, team, and company achievements.
