Leadership discussions are replete with advice on the value of teamwork – and, yes, I have put my own oar in the river on this topic more than once.
That said, we have not previously addressed the elements that work together to comprise a healthy and productive working community - namely, those key factors that serve as a catalyst to build and sustain a truly effective team.
Though there are a wide variety of suggestions regarding how to effect positive team results, we have found in multiple settings that when we are pressed to articulate the irreducible-minimum essentials, we always return to the same three core attributes. They are the following:
1. Mission Partner
2. Fellow Worker
3. Committed Colleague
I realize that simply listing these does not provide appropriate clarity of meaning. Yet we work hard to keep these emails succinct. Therefore, over the next several weeks we will look at each one of these components distinctively and in a bit more detail.
Stay tuned…