Subject: A Surprising Valuable Team Activity For Increasing Teamwork

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A Surprising Valuable Team Activity For Increasing Teamwork
There are a number of things you can do with your team to improve how they work together. One that is often overlooked, but is gaining momentum, is simply spending time together as a team.

Teamwork requires that members of the team trust each other. Trust increases from understanding teammates better. Understanding each others uniqueness, weaknesses and intentions improves a team’s ability to work together, collaborate and even disagree in healthy and productive ways.

To get to a point where teams understand one another better requires members of the team to take time to know each other outside of work. To really understand someone requires we know about their history, challenges, successes, likes, dislikes, pet peeves etc… Work only provides a small window into understanding a teammate.

One team activity to help you get there...
A Quick Way to Help Those You Lead Feel Good (Team or Family)
If you are a leader, you are always looking for quick and effective ways to boost the morale of those you lead.

Last Sunday night we had a good portion of our family over for dinner, including our three children that are married and their spouses. While we were wrapping up our meal, my wife suggested a new tradition.

She explained that at each big family dinner (which usually occur around the Holidays or special family events like Baptisms) that we should celebrate the recent birthdays of family members by going around the table and saying something nice to that person.

The guidelines were to try not to repeat what someone else had said and to make it genuine – something that would really make them feel good.

At this recent dinner we had a total of 14 family members...
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