Be Amazing Together: Teamwork

Overview:

Despite the fact that employees are more technologically interconnected than ever before, the “silo effect” (collaboration between departments and teams within an organization) continues to be a problem in workplaces of all types.  Don’t believe it?  In a recent survey by ClearCompany,

• 39% of employees believe that there isn’t enough collaboration between people in their organization.
• 86% of executives and employees blame a lack of collaboration or bad communication for team problems and failures.
• 97% of employees and executives believe lack of alignment within a team impacts the outcome of a project or task.

Geographical distances, physical spaces, managerial differences, lack of communication or understanding of other’s duties and responsibilities, among other things, are all reasons why silos develop.  Different teams usually specialize in different areas – and that’s a good thing.  But too much segmentation hurts productivity, profitability, and inter-office cohesion.

During this program, we will define the seamless teamwork that our customers require, where we can better foster cross-team collaboration, and what it can look like when we operate as one team!

Teamwork remains a huge competitive advantage – because it’s so powerful AND it’s so rare!

Objectives:

As a result of attending this program, you should be able to:

• Explain your personal style and the style of others on your team…  Specifically, how you drive each other crazy and how you work together more effectively.
• Define what it means to be amazing for your customers.
• Describe what it feels like for customers to do business with your organization (not our intentions, what our actions tell our customers).
• Explore “silos” present within your organization through a activity with balloons.
• Define how much further/how much more successful we’ll all be if we work as ONE team (no matter your location/role, etc.).
• Explain the three important reminders to being amazing with a positive attitude.