How to develop staff cohesiveness
1. Quotable quote
"As a manager you will play a crucial role in building the team, and then in maintaining its effectiveness. Some of this team-building work will be high-profile and visible, but much of it will be behind the scenes, self-effacing work that receives no recognition and often little credit - your reward will be the private knowledge that without such work the team would not be so effective."
2. Don't forget
To build team unity, ‘America’s Life Coach’ Ron Jenson says you must:
- Uplift one another.
- Need one another.
- Openly relate to one another.
- Trust one another.
- Yield to one another.
Team unity is all about:
- Giving up my own agenda to develop a better one.
- Combining my uniqueness with another person or a group of people, to create something new.
- Choosing to be more excited about the success of the team (or the other person) than for myself.
- A spirit of oneness where I seek to build up those around me and be open and honest in the process.
3. Smile & ponder
Many years ago, so the story goes, a heavy bronze bell sank into a river in China and the efforts of various ancient engineers to raise it always ended in failure.
Several years later, a wise priest gained permission to make the attempt, but there was a proviso. If he were success-ful, he insisted that the bell should be presented to a temple in his region. …
