How to Build a Team: Using Vision, Commitment, and Trust

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How to Build a Team Using Vision, Commitment,
and Trust

• Amanda Cummings, Kelly McCrary

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Realize what Teamwork can do for You

• The moment you start doing anything at all with
  another person, youve established a team
• Productive teamwork moves you toward challenge,
  through change, with more confidence
• Working well on any team
• generates energy and enthusiasm
• for life

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Dont be Quick to Judge Skills

• You can be a part of a team even if you think you
  dont have the skills
• When choosing a team or evaluating a team realize
  different people bring different skills

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Vision What will it look like when we get there?

• Vision means being able to excite the team with
  large, desired outcomes (goals)
• Project a goal that has value to the team
• A goal must contain
• challenge
• appeal to personal pride
• An opportunity to make a difference
• Picture Success!

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Commitment

• Can be a dangerous and misunderstood concept
• Pre-commitment process will help overcome
  commitment obstacles
• Eliminate pressure to commit
• Define expectations and success will soar

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Trust

• Trust means more confidence in team leadership
  and vision
• When trust prevails, team members are more
  willing to go through a difficult process
• Leadership commitment to vision
• List the unknowns
• Assess worst case scenarios
• Research the unknowns

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Inclusion

• Getting others to commit to the team effort
• Small groups that facilitate through give and
  take
• Communicate the vision, the commitment, and
  elicit and address peoples doubts
• Leaders will achieve inclusion by
• Non-assumptive question,
• good listening
• directed response

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Nextel

• Inclusion Diversity
• A sense of creativity and innovation that
  generates a unique connection between the
  workplace and the marketplace.
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Finalize your Plan

• Establish a balanced strategy for reaching the
  committed vision
• Once you set the groundwork teammates will be
  enthusiastic and cooperative
• Use team consensus to make decisions as opposed
  to issuing orders
• Diverse views can help or hurt a
• team
• Communicate, communicate,
• communicate!

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Sources

• www.learningcenter.net
• http//www2.sprint.com/mr/aboutsprint.do

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a
common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to
attain uncommon results Andrew Carnegie