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2010-01-09 16:11:55
Great teams thrive on diversity, with each team member having a unique set of skills, filling a unique role. Yet teams are also unified behind a single purpose. All of those diverse talents and personalities must unite around a single goal. Pat Williams
A strong team is a diversified team. Without diversity a team will fail.
Teams need to be built with individuals that have different viewpoints, talents, values, personalities, strengths, likes and dislikes. This diversity needs to be united by a common vision, mission and goals but the diversity is still required as the team or organization strives towards the vision, mission and goals. A team without the diversity is like a football team of all quarterbacks or a team of only tight ends or only defensive backs. Individually they might be stellar performers but as a team they are destined to fail big time.
Do a strengths assessment of your team and determine where there are overlaps and where there are strength gaps. Make sure the team is very aware of the overlaps and how they, as a team, might be biased towards a particular way of doing business or a particular action because of the similarity in their individuality. Then identify the strength gaps and determine a strategy to deal with these gaps. Perhaps this means hiring people with this particular strength or maybe the organization can bring in consultants with these strengths to review the business. Whatever strategy you use, ensure that your team is a diverse group of individuals with diverse strengths that come together into a united, well balanced team. Some great examples of high performing high profile teams are:
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs…Wozniak did the techie work and built the Apple personal computer and Jobs did the marketing.
- Paul Allen and Bill Gates…Allen pushed for new products and technological innovation while Gates provided the greater business vision.
- Earl Tupper and Brownie Wise…Tupper provided the inventions and products, quality control and processes and Wise provided the astounding network marketing that turned Tupperware into an astronomical success.
Once you have a great team in place that can thrive on diversity and is ready to excel together then the organizational leader must unite this team around a common vision, mission and set of goals. Combine these two steps and you will propel your organization towards success.
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