In this article we use the word “team” but this is also applicable to our personal relationships with our families, partner and friends.
A common strategy of colonisers-invaders was to weaken community trust, foster gossip to create wedges to disrupt communications in the “village”.
Please interchange the term “team” with “family” or “friends” as necessary.
Working as One Team is not a new idea. It’s the centre for community building. The idea of creating “community” at work is not a “wishy-washy, soft touch” superficial concept. It’s a key for sustainable organisational success. As it takes a “village to raise a child” it takes a “village to succeed through change”.
Working as One Team is not a new idea. It’s the centre for community building. The idea of creating “community” at work is not a “wishy-washy, soft touch” superficial concept. It’s a key for sustainable organisational success. As it takes a “village to raise a child” it takes a “village to succeed through change”.
Anthropologists and sociologists tell us that communities who don’t work together are not able to innovate and would greatly suffer through change and even cease to exist.
A common strategy of colonisers-invaders was to weaken community trust, foster gossip to create wedges to disrupt communications in the “village”.
Villages have successfully faced and thrived through change by practicing:
•A deepening sense of unity and pride.
•Chatting with one another. Through “Bon-fire” conversations, sharing a cuppa, a drink, (a pipe!) or eating together.
•Valuing each other. Each one was made to feel valued and important.
The “me” included the “we”.
•Thinking outside the box (well, they were forced to do it by circumstances)
They used play, dance and laughter.
They were challenged to innovate, do things differently and put aside what was not necessary.
This is the language of nature; this is not something new.
This is what teams experience in places like Google, Facebook and others disruptive technologies like Uber.
“Being together” generates key endorphins including, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin that expands:
•Joy-Happiness
•A “We can do it” spirit. Nothing is too difficult.
•Cooperation
•Love
It builds a sense of empowerment, resilience, creativity, friendship.
It builds a sense of empowerment, resilience, creativity, friendship.
This is when real Breakthroughs happen.
This is not a superficial Kumbaya but a spontaneous sense of we’re together so we can:
•Be Protagonists, Actors and help each other to deflect temptation to be a Victim or just Spectators.
•Be Protagonists, Actors and help each other to deflect temptation to be a Victim or just Spectators.