"Warm up to each other in the cold winter, challenge each other before difficulties."
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Source: Zhang Lijun (ID: zhanglijunCherry)
Author: Zhang Lijun, founder of Entrepreneurial Yeast, founder of Yeast Consulting.
Recently, the epidemic situation in Shanghai has been severe, and the entire city has pressed the "pause button". Our colleagues in Shanghai have also been affected, all working from home.
I am very worried that if I am closed for too long, everyone will feel anxious and depressed.
As a result, colleagues in Shanghai posted a video in the company's large group. The video clips the scene of each colleague working from home, and everyone has a smile on their face.
Thinking that it was difficult to buy vegetables in Shanghai the other day, everyone in the team went out to brush their mobile phones at six or seven o'clock in the morning to help colleagues in Shanghai "grab" dishes and solve the problem of "eating". At that moment, I was suddenly very moved and very relieved.
Because, from them, I saw a good team.
What is a good team? How to bring a team well? Today I will talk to you about this topic.
01 Beware of three kinds of "pseudo-teams"
Companies win battles by team, not individual heroism. But you must make sure that your team is not a "pseudo-team".
What is a "pseudo-team"? "Pseudo-team" has three major manifestations:
1. A group of harmony, no performance
Some teams seem to be harmonious, there is no conflict, the atmosphere is particularly good, but they have never been able to achieve any results.
Why can't I do performance? Because managers will only be people, will not do things, everywhere and mud, as long as there is no accident, rather than do things.
There is no common goal to fight for, everyone stays in their comfort zone and ends up like a boiled frog in warm water, and the whole team is slowly abandoned.
2. Scattered and fighting
There are a lot of smart people in some teams, but these smart people together often mess up a team.
Why messed up? Because, everyone is fighting their own battles, everyone becomes extremely aggressive, competing for various resources and rights within the team, the dysfunction of the organization, and the whole team is scattered.
The team is constantly consuming, there is no cohesion, how can it have combat effectiveness?
3. One thousand faces, ignoring the individual
There are also teams, everyone is a thousand faces, and everyone seems to look similar. What the leader says is what it is, and everyone is echoing it, and they dare or are unwilling to give different opinions.
Such a team has only one color, lacks vitality, lacks creativity, and will only slowly move toward mediocrity, eventually being eliminated or replaced by other teams.
These are the three most common types of "pseudo-teams."
02 What is a "good team"?
"Pseudo team" is very deceptive, so how to identify "pseudo team"?
At the critical juncture of the enterprise, in the front line of the business with the roar of artillery fire, it is the best time to test a team.
Why is Li Yunlong's team in "Bright Sword" the best team? Because, his team has experienced the baptism of blood and fire.
In the bloody battle, Li Yunlong and his independent regiment improved their combat quality, condensed their faith, optimized the personnel allocation, and also trained and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, thus becoming an invincible heroic team.
Difficulties can bring down a team, and they can also hone a team. Good teams are spelled out in danger.
Because, only when the team is facing danger, you can see who is the same person and who is not the same person.
The big waves are sandy, and the leftovers are king. Spelling out from the crisis, the people left from the team are often extremely good people, they have a strong heart, perseverance, can withstand pressure, can withstand loneliness. They are also very team players and are particularly capable in some ways.
Only those who have experienced battles and survived are the most effective teams and "good teams".
So, what does a "good team" look like? A good team tends to have the following three characteristics:
The first, goal-oriented.
As a team, what are the specific goals of our work? What is the goal at this point? What was the goal at that time? What is the overall goal, and what is the goal of segmentation?
When the team has a goal, it has a direction, it knows what the work plan is, the key work, and what the key links are, and the team has a unified cognition and a foundation for collaborative work.
When individuals have goals, they know what the focus of their work is, what the meaning is, and they know how to improve themselves and realize their own value.
The second is to make a hole in the external force.
A good team must be a team that can win the battle. You can't win a battle, it's not a team, it's just a gang at best.
This requires that in the face of the company's strategic goals, the team can make a hole and form a synergy to complete the task and achieve the performance goal.
Pulling out a hole actually delineates the boundaries of the team's work, does something and does not do something, ensures concentration, and then continues to win the battle.
Third, internally "harmony and difference".
What is "harmony and difference"? That is to say, when the team in order to achieve the company's strategic goals, can be up and down the same desire, everyone is a heart, but within the team, to pay attention to everyone's individual differences, can not be a thousand people, to activate micro-individuals, so that everyone shines.
The company and the employees should complement each other. Employees unite as one and strive to achieve the company's performance goals, and the company should also attach importance to personal interests and needs, and attach importance to the realization of personal value.
As a manager, you must know how to inspire everyone on the team, let them enhance their own value, be full of sense of gain, and ultimately achieve something.
03 How to make a "good team"?
So, how does a "good team" come about? How can managers bring out a "good team"? In my opinion, there are roughly the following three aspects:
1. Leading by example is worth a thousand words
Whether a team is good or bad, the biggest responsibility lies with the manager. The so-called "will bear a nest, soldiers bear a bear", what the manager is like, the team is what it is.
Therefore, managers should first manage themselves, pay attention to the basic professional qualities and work habits of managers, set themselves up as a model for the team, and have leadership, so that they can make everyone do it.
If managers can't lead by example, only know how to throw the pot, prevaricate, and put personal interests above the team, such a team will fall apart sooner or later.
2. Dare to use people to achieve things
As a manager, we must dare to use people to achieve things, and we must dare to challenge and achieve high goals.
High goals are the best experience for the team. For example, the sales team's performance last year was 1 million, and this year's performance target is 10 million, then the sales team must innovate and change the past sales model. Because if the sales continue the experience of previous years, they can only do 2 million at most.
There is a saying in "4 Hours of Work Per Week" that something with a medium, predictable outcome must be exchanged for a medium, predictable effort.
When the team challenges the high goal and takes on greater responsibility, the more it forces the team to evolve and grow new capabilities.
For example, managers should grow the ability to set goals and split goals, be able to employ people, be able to put the right people in the right positions, and help them make performance.
3. Inspire everyone on your team
In the vast majority of organizations, team effectiveness is far from being realized. When the team gets bigger, the effectiveness of the team often decreases.
Why is that? This is because there is a "Ringermann effect" in team organizations.
What is the "Ringerman Effect"?
The Frenchman Ringermann did a tug-of-war experiment and found that when working as a team, each person used less and less power, and did not achieve the effect of power accumulation.
Because, in the tug-of-war, when the number of people increases, people will feel that "I don't use force, others will also use force", so they will not work as hard as when there are fewer people.
This is actually a matter of responsibility, and in a team, when everyone is asked to complete a task together, this kind of responsibility dispersion effect can easily occur.
Therefore, if the manager wants to bring out a good team, he must be good at inspiring everyone in the team, you must motivate him through material, inspire him with spirit, constrain him with mechanisms, improve him with performance, stimulate everyone's self-drive and potential, and create greater value.
Finally, to summarize:
What is a good team? It is to be able to warm each other in the cold winter and face challenges before difficulties. The really good team is never managed, but spelled out in danger, and experienced in the fire of front-line business.
How do good teams come about? Managers must first lead by example and manage themselves first; they must dare to use people to achieve things, so that the team can challenge and achieve high goals; and finally, they must be good at inspiring everyone in the team to help them find their own position in the team and realize their self-worth.
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Tell me, what kind of good team do you think you have?
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