In corporate world, team means a designated leader or captain whose is responsible for many things like listening, motivating, teaching, often preaching management, what should be done or what should not be.
In his absence, these task become responsibilities of next in chain and whole team needs to follow the structure to reach at all decisions.
Is this the way "Team" should be?
Let us compare this with a soccer team. There is of course a coach, a captain and a vice captain. The captain may not be the best player. Nor he assumes the role that he is responsible to score every goal. He is one who has experience to handle crisis and manage the group as one.
He can not and should not think that it is who that has to be guide in the play. Every player works responsibly and plays the part. At any point of time when a player is reaching out to score a goal, all serve him. "Service" of the winner in a winning moment is the "Team Spirit". It is situational and in each situation there are players that assume prime importance and much more than that of any other player including the "Captain" or "Vice Captain". In moment of Goal Keeper trying to save goal, he is the "Leader of the situation" and every one aligns automatically to support his leadership.
To be continued........
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Food for thuoght. It will be ideal if the corporate team works somewhat like a Soccer Team, however there are differences, the Soccer team plays against an opponent within set rules and on an even playing field whereas the corporate team plays against mostly an unknown and changing (evolving) opponent on an uneven field.
ReplyDeleteIn a Soccer team the players that score winning goals are the stars of the champion team whereas in a corporate the credit (and discredit) almost always goes to the leader.
The Corporate team reminds me of a Naval Ship that is detached for a mission and is expected to achieve it’s target with everybody working hard and in a clockwork precision to achieve that goal. The lookout on the bridge may be the junior most rating but his role is no less important
Teamwork is essential for competing in today's global arena, where individual perfection is not as desirable as a high level of collective performance.
ReplyDeleteA critical feature of these teams is that they have a significant degree of empowerment