How to Build a Team: Using
Vision, Commitment, and Trust
Amanda Cummings, Kelly McCrary
Realize what Teamwork
can do for You
The moment you start doing anything at all
with another person, you’ve established a
team
Productive teamwork moves you toward
challenge, through change, with more
confidence
Working well on any team
generates energy and enthusiasm
for life
Don’t be Quick to Judge
Skills
You can be a part of a
team even if you think
you don’t have the
“skills”
When choosing a team
or evaluating a team
realize different people
bring different skills
Vision
What will it look like when we get there?
Vision means being able
to excite the team with
large, desired outcomes
(goals)
Project a goal that has
value to the team
A goal must contain:
challenge
appeal to personal pride
An opportunity to make a
difference
Picture Success!
Commitment
Can be a dangerous and
misunderstood concept
Pre-commitment process will
help overcome commitment
obstacles
Eliminate pressure to commit
Define expectations and
success will soar
Trust
Trust means more confidence in team leadership
and vision
When trust prevails, team members are more willing
to go through a difficult process
Leadership commitment to vision
List the unknowns
Assess worst case scenarios
Research the unknowns
Inclusion
Getting others to commit to the team effort
Small groups that facilitate through give and take
Communicate the vision, the commitment, and
elicit and address people’s doubts
Leaders will achieve inclusion by:
Non-assumptive question,
good listening
directed response
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Inclusion & Diversity
A sense of creativity and innovation that
generates a unique connection between the
workplace and the marketplace.
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Finalize your Plan
Establish a balanced strategy for reaching the
committed vision
Once you set the groundwork teammates will
be enthusiastic and cooperative
Use team consensus to make decisions as
opposed to issuing orders
Diverse views can help or hurt a
team
Communicate, communicate,
communicate!
Sources
www.learningcenter.net
http://www2.sprint.com/mr/aboutsprint.do
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a
common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is
the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon
results –Andrew Carnegie