Teams Work – does yours?

Had a fascinating evening with Leicester Business Club last night, developing, among other things a great sense of teamwork in a very short space of time.  In groups of 8, we took 15 minutes to focus on a particular issue or question for each of the group members. 

It just goes to show that, when you’re engrossed in your business or project, it’s so hard to see the wood for the trees, and the perspective of someone completely unconnected to your world can bring such a fresh approach. In lots of cases, we heard things we knew already, and would have advised others to do, but had somehow forgotten to do them ourselves!

This is a powerful way to spend a short space of time and really raise the energy levels around a particular area of work. I wonder how many teams get together for just this kind of exercise.  The truth is that most team members are on their own when it comes to delivering results or solving problems.

How much better it would be for teams and organisational performance to have some kind of structured exercise to understand each others’ work and offer support and ideas.