INTENT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM
Organisations can be described as a team sport in which there is a task that needs to get done and this task is passed around between members of a team or between teams within an organisation. Fundamentally, each interaction of passing the task between team members can have one of two characters: it can either be fundamentally competitive, or it can be fundamentally cooperative/collaborative. It is fundamentally competitive when both parties go into the interaction wanting to win or come first. The interaction becomes cooperative/collaborative when at least one of the members shifts their intent in the interaction to how they can set the other up to succeed.
Teams are fundamentally healthy and effective when the average interaction is one of collaboration rather than competition. Teams succeed when individuals within the team are all trying to set each other up to succeed. This is what being a giver means in the context of a team.
Apart from Leadership Excellence, Schuitema Group has identified four other variables that contribute to this collaborativeness between peers.
The team has a vision or an objective that solicits the intent to contribute.
Each member understands how their individual role contributes to orchestrating the success of the team.
There is mutual respect among members of the team. This is evidenced when each member of the team confirms the significance of the other members and when they deliberately set up the other members of the team for success.
The behaviour of team members is fundamentally value-driven. Team members demonstrate that they are able to differentiate between what is correct and what is expedient in any situation, and they act on the basis of what is correct.
Why is Team Excellence Important?
Organisations are healthy to the degree to which the teams within the organisation collaborate towards producing a surplus. Teams produce surpluses based on the degree to which each individual within the team is there to make a discretionary contribution in pursuit of the objectives of the team.
This intent to make a contribution manifests within the team as a genuine collaboration between team members. Collaborative contribution amongst teams is the essence of organisational excellence.
How We Work
How we work consists of 4 main pillars within Leadership Excellence:
Diagnostics
Our approach is holistic and can assist you in understanding what is going on within your organisation, and how this is translating into the customer’s brand experience. We assist you in finding the What, Where, Why and the consequences of these variables.
The tools that we use to do this include the following:
- Peer Audit
- Brand Experience Coefficient
- Team Culture Surveys
- Collaborativeness Focus Groups
Training
Schuitema Group enables client organisations to build contribution-focused, value-adding teams through our workshops which include:
- Team Excellence
- Service Excellence
- People & Wealth
- Grow to Care
- Mastery at Work
Coaching
By adhering to a formalised coaching process both individuals and/or groups, we are able to work on three levels – addressing immediate concerns, developing competence and finally, transformational change.
We coach both individuals and teams based on what your organisation requires.
Consulting
Through our consulting practice, we work hand in hand with organisations to establish the conditions which foster and promote genuine collaboration between team members, and between teams to foster and promote employee commitment to the organisation.
Our approach includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Framing Benevolent Intent
- Facilitating Business Strategy
- Establishing Values
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