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Some simple key steps to building a winning team.
I always tell them I have six key steps for building a winning team and I will run you through them now…
1. Strong Leadership – no company ever succeeded with a weak leader at the helm. That’s not strong management. You manage resources, you lead people.
2. A Common Goal – I’ve been lucky enough in my life to meet General Norman Schwarzkopf twice. He taught me one extremely valuable lesson. He said when he was in Vietnam; he was given a three by five card that he kept in his top pocket. On it were the seventeen politically correct reasons he was in Vietnam. But, when he went to the Gulf, he told all of his soldiers – whether they were Australian, British or French – one common goal: ‘to kick Saddam out of Kuwait.” He said by having that one common goal, the team succeeded much faster. In business or any team you are building, strong leadership and a common goal.
3. You’ve got to have set rules of the game – What are your rules of playing? If you want to understand the rules of the game, take a look on Action International’s website, wwww.action-international.com. We have 14 points of culture that are our rules of the game for playing our business. They are important because when most people join a company, all the rules are unwritten. What happens is you only learn the rules after you make a mistake – people don’t enjoy being in that environment. For an example; if I dropped you from a helicopter… and when we landed, you were blindfolded. You didn’t have any idea where you were. If I put you in the middle of a massive ten-acre field, would you start running? No because you are blindfolded, you don’t know where the boundaries are, so you don’t run. Whereas, in my companies, when people join, they know the boundaries. Therefore they start running from day one.
4. You must have an Action Plan – who is doing what by when? If we don’t know what we are doing, who is doing it, and who is responsible: we are dead meat.
5. Support Risk-Taking – Most business owners and most teams don’t support risk taking. I have watched a football team try a new concept in a game. The coach supports them taking a risk because he knows that is the only way the team can grow. The same is true in business. You are not making mistakes in business, and then you are failing. Because if you’re not making mistakes – you are not trying anything new.
6. There must be one hundred percent involvement and one hundred percent inclusion – It is up to each team member to be responsible to involve themselves. But it is up to the team leader to include those not involved up to that point in time. I have a simple analogy for that. For example: A rugby world team is fifteen players who run on the field. What happens if five of those people are really there just to make up the numbers? They are not really contributing anything. What’s the total score of that team for how many are playing? Well, you have to remember you are either growing or dying. You are a postie or a negative. You can’t be a zero. What we’re saying is that there are ten running out there trying their best. There are five not doing the best they can: really doing nothing. They’re just there o make up numbers. Most business owners would describe those employees as they are “doing just enough to get by”. The reality is those five employees are a negative score. You have plus ten, minus five. Your total team score is only five playing. There is no synergy and therefore, that team cannot create massive results.
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