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HOW YOU THINK IS EVERYTHING Get Everybody On Board.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)(IBD'S 10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS)
Byline: Cord Cooper
1There are two ways to promote teamwork. Galvanize workers around company goals. Or treat those workers like drones and unite them against you.
To promote teamwork that works:
** Forget political correctness. When assigning tasks to ad hoc teams, some leaders use the round-robin approach. They think it's an objective way to promote growth. Team members' natural strengths aren't considered.
Not a good move, say experts. One worker might be strong in dealing with vendors, while another's a dynamite number cruncher. Ignore workers' strengths and you raise the potential for conflict.
Matching tasks with strengths does little good if you're not flexible. If workers still feel they've been overlooked, hear them out -- privately. If they have legitimate gripes, make adjustments down the road.
** Seek unlikely sources. Great ideas can come from workers with little or no expertise in a given field. They don't know the ideas "can't work," so they suggest them anyway. Sometimes they strike gold, notes productivity expert Aubrey Daniels.
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