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Team Spark: Find the Common Beat
Similar to a band with many different instruments playing together, a diverse team consists of many different personalities working together. While this diversity allows for innovation and creativity, it also makes it more difficult for team members to keep the same tempo. It is the role of the team member with the drummer personality to keep everyone communicating and completing tasks on time.
Team Spark: Honor Unique Contributions
The individual brilliance of an employee is not always realized until a group comes together to collaborate. Working with other employees on diverse teams helps each team member to tap into their creativity, often producing ground breaking products and services that could only be discovered through collaboration.
Team Spark: Invest Time to Build Trust
When working on diverse teams, developing trust may take longer due to background differences and different views on what trust means and how it is earned. Building confidence helps to resolve communication issues that may impede team progress. A trusting team will be able to function as a cohesive unit when critical decisions have to be made.
Team Spark: Leverage Broad Expertise
Like building a skyscraper, collaboration on large projects works best when you bring together a team with diverse areas of expertise. On-going and continuous collaboration among disciplines helps to ensure that your project achieves all of its goals when it is completed.
Team Spark: Mix Diverse Personalities
When combined haphazardly, people can clash instead of cohere, resulting in a “failed launch.” Creating a team comprised of diverse individuals may require a more careful balancing of components, but in the end provides the opportunity for brilliant results when done with careful thought and respect.
Team Spark: Pay Attention To Nonverbal Communication
Colleagues in the workplace communicate both verbally and non-verbally. Understanding how to interpret their nonverbal communication can be a great advantage. The meaning of body language and facial expressions may vary from culture to culture, so it is always good to check for understanding.
Team Spark: Proverb - Be Creative
Spark team communication around supporting team members when they choose to set their own course in how they complete work.
Team Spark: Proverb - Be Patient
Spark team communication around being patient and giving a project time to move forward - allowing for greater creativity or innovation.
Team Spark: Proverb - Deal with Little Issues
Spark team communication about the protocols that can help us catch small problems early on (before they grow into BIG issues).
Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Insult Someone Who Can Take Care of You
Spark team communication about how to better understand each other so that we don’t offend each other.
Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Look at the Mistake
Spark team communication around root cause analysis and correcting workplace mistakes.
Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Waste Your Efforts
Spark team communication around project or product completion.
Team Spark: Proverb - Each Person Is Unique
Spark team communication around how we can use our unique skills and abilities more effectively as individuals, or as a team.
Team Spark: Proverb - Everyone Makes Mistakes
Spark team communication around how to handle mistakes when they are made.
Team Spark: Proverb - Expecting Different Results Without Change Is Unrealistic
Spark team communication around project or team turnaround without careful analysis of the current situation - and understanding what might need to change in order to achieve the results expected.
Team Spark: Proverb - Giving Up Too Easily
Spark team communication around tips for keeping the team focused and on task when facing challenges.
Team Spark: Proverb - If Everyone Has The Responsibility; Nothing Gets Done
Spark team communication on having specific ownership to help ensure a task is completed.
Team Spark: Proverb - If You Don't Communicate, You'll Get Burned
Spark team communication on what we can do to better communicate with people inside and outside of the team.
Team Spark: Proverb - Many Things Require People To Work Together to Achieve a Goal
Spark team communication on the consequences if we try to complete a big project without excellent teamwork.
Team Spark: Proverb - People Judge Things from Their Experience Not the Wider World
Spark team communication on how looking at something from just one perspective can impact the team.