Have you ever noticed that fundamental teamwork skills are really hard to teach?
We’ll let you in on a secret. They can be learned – in fact we permanently transform clients all the time. Just not in the way you might think.
While we refer to the qualities of good teamwork as skills, they are actually a combination of skills – knowing how to take action, and dispositions – which is a mindset towards what actions you take.
Have you ever been to a two-day leadership workshop, got a lot of useful strategies from it, then stopped using them all within a few months? You would have learned some great skills, but without the disposition to use them, it’s easy to slip quickly back into your habitual ways of doing things.
Listening to what other people care about with empathy and understanding. Speaking to produce a shared future.
Building trust and solving problems as a team using interdependent thinking and appropriate language.
Cultivating the ability to be open, present and connected: self-aware and aware of our effect on others.