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Personal Team Relationships
There is a difference between team-building and teamwork. The first focuses most on building the group and the second on the processes and functions that make groups successful (Ingram, David, 2011)
In many business settings we often focus on the first and then assume the working together will come naturally. We often assume that having others around is enough to ensure that person interests or agendas don't predominate. But what happens when we cannot focus on the team itself or the building of that team? Then we have to focus on how people work together, including on interpersonal relationships that really determine if the decision-making processes function as we want.
One of the key issues of two people working productively always centers on listening and mutually understanding what each wants, what each hears and what each expects will result....
This is how groups or individuals can make progress and get to the point where plans can be made and the details for moving forward can be identified. Goals and objectives are important in team settings but they still need to be understood by the individuals who do the actions necessary to get to those outcomes. This level of results orientation through mutual understanding and communication underlies what happens between individuals just as it does the dynamics of a healthy and productive group process, which is what team-building and growing is all about.
Here is one example of this. Two people were fighting once in a group that was trying to outline our business goals and the steps to get started. The two people just couldn't communicate and seemed to be talking past each other. They were nearly fighting, which hurt the environment for our team. So I tried something to get them…
REFERENCES:
Ingram, David (2011), What is the difference between team building & team work, The Houston Chronicle, retrieved October 6, 2011 from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-team-building-teamwork-10981.html, para 4.
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