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Teaming
in Tough Times
How business teams can handle challenging scenarios
intelligently and powerfully
Nowadays, with the recession at hand, it feels like business
is simply one long challenging scenario. There are tried
and tested methods out there however, to assist business
teams to overcome these challenges in smart ways.
Corporate Adventures has scanned the latest literature,
locally and globally, to bring you the knowledge and skills
discussed below. Happy Teaming!
Executive Summary
Handling challenges as a team requires habits, both individually
as well as on a team level, in terms of common ways of doing,
being and thinking. We need to create a team culture of
intelligent thinking.
What habits are required?
- Resilient mind sets. It is too easy
to get demotivated and off track if thinking resiliently
is not a habit! Resilience also encompassed the ability
to LAUGH at oneself... finding humour in a dire challenge
makes it so much easier to approach. Ala Harry Potters
“Ridikulous” spell.
- Asking what is the most intelligent thing
to do right now? Not what is the easiest? What
is the most cost effective? Get out of the silo! The most
intelligent thing would be a clever and balanced combination
of all the aspects that need to be considered. We need
to get into the habit of making disciplined decisions
based on all the available information. Systems thinking
is key to survival in modern day business.
- Make a habit of breaking bad habits!
To be able to effectively handle challenging scenarios,
we need to make sure we don’t fall into old traps.
Thinking about your thinking is critical to be able to
function effectively. Challenge team norms that are not
working!
- Flexibility. The world we exist in
moves rather faster than it did 10 years ago.
Clients want it now, not later, your boss wants things
done yesterday every day, and we have to do more with
less... less time, less money, fewer resources. This requires
flexibility in our thinking, moving out of rigid patterns
and allowing our innovation and creative thinking to take
over, within the framework of intelligent thinking.
Resilient Mind Sets
Resilience... what does it mean exactly?
Are we born with it?
Can I learn it?
Can teams be resilient? Is it essential to survival in
today’s business world?
Watch out next month to find out more...
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