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Build & Operate
Your Successful
TEAM
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Agenda
Defining the TEAM
 The value of the Team in today’s business
 Keys of building a successful Team
 Golden Rules
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What is a team?
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It has been said that:
“ Three is a crowd”
But, with a good management they can
become a
“ TEAM!”
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How to build a team?
How to build a Successful Team?
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Advantages of TEAMS
Team Improve Your
Skills
More talent,
Expertise and
Technical
competence
Communication
Participation
Effectiveness
More ideas
Mutual respect
Boost moral
“Buy in” to changes
Job satisfaction
Solutions more
Likely to be
Implemented
Process ownership
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Name:
What Can A Team of
Entrepreneurs Really Do?
Ticker:
Founded:
Market Cap:(USD)
Google, Inc.
NASDAQ:
GOOG
1998
$102 Billion
Employees:(full time) 5680
General
Motors
NYSE: GM
1908
$12.24 Billion
327,000
As of March 21, 2006
Eight year old venture backed Google, which entered what
appeared to be a very crowded space, currently has 8 times the
market capitalization of 100 year old global industrial giant General
Motors!
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Team Forming Stages
1- Forming
4-
2-Storming
Performing
3-
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Assembling a Winning Team
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The process is intense
It takes time
Finding the right people can be a
challenge
Make sure you are all in it for the same
reasons
Consider efficacy of any new additions to
the team
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Areas to Explore with your
Team
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Individual goals
Commitment to the business
Personal considerations
What will keep the team going?
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What will pull the plug (no funds?)
If goals differ, how will the conflict be resolved
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Effective Teams
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Have clear goals and objectives
Share responsibility
Measure their progress towards the goals
Have the necessary skills (technical,
problem solving, and interpersonal)
Have the resources needed for the job
Have agreed ground rules for working
together
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Effective Teams:
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Have allocated appropriate roles for each
member
Support each other by listening,
responding constructively and helpfully
Recognize individual and team success
Handle conflict constructively and openly
Share leadership
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The 4 Pillars to Build a Successful
TEAM
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1. Common Purpose, and Shared Values &
Goals
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2. Development of Skills
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3. Synergetic Harmony
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4. Keeping the Accent on the Positive
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Pillar # 1
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Common Purpose and Shared Values & Goals
 Create a challenge, a reason for being that
motivates people to work together
 Set clear goals & strategies BOTH for
individual and the team
 Be clear on your values
 Create a team charter that clearly states what
the team wants to accomplish, and how the
team will work to achieve results
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Worthwhile Work
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Knowing we make the world a better place
It’s how the work helps others, not the units dealt with
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Everyone works toward a shared goal
People support best that which they helped create
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Values guide all plans, decisions & actions
Values become real only when you demonstrate them in the way
you act and the way you insist others behave.
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MEGALOMANIA
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No one is indispensable
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Pillar # 2
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Development of skills
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Start with the basics. Build individual skills
that will bolster team skills
Provide FEEDBACK to build skills,
confidence, and accountability
Learn each other’s roles
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Pillar # 3
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Synergetic Harmony
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NONE OF US IS AS SMART AS ALL OF US
Share leadership
Rotate position to build flexibility
Turn individual skills into team skills
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In control of achieving the goal
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Playing field with clearly marked territory
When in command take charge
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Thoughts, feelings, needs, and dreams are
respected, listened to, and acted upon.
it’s tough to be boss without being bossy
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Able but challenging
No pain no gain 
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Pillar # 4
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Keeping the accent on the positive
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REPEATED REWARD & RECOGNITION
Look for behaviors that reflect the purpose and values
of the team work, and REWARD them
Catch people doing things right or approximately right
Redirect toward the goal; do not punish
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Cheering each others on
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Active or passive, congratulations must be
TRUE = Timely, Responsive, Unconditional, Enthusiastic
No score, no game, and cheer the
progress
Police behavior Vs Coach behavior
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E = mc2
Enthusiasm equals mission times cash & congratulations
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The better (more effective)
congratulations
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Programmed 
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Spontaneous
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Blanket
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Individual
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General
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Specific
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Traditional
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Unique
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PERFORM
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P=
Purpose
E=
Empowerment
R=
Relationship
F=
Flexibility
O= Optimal Performance
R=
Recognition
M=
Morale
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BE AWARE!!!
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Organizations can get SO focused on
beautiful processes that they forget what
they’re really supposed to be doing
Getting it right starts to get in the way of
getting it done
Prepared for SYEA Ventures4/3/2008

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The Golden Rules
1. The Pride RULE:
You have to be proud of the GOAL & HOW you
get there
2. The self-confidence RULE:
When in command take charge
3. The 10 words RULE:
None of us is as smart as all of us
4. The triple R RULE:
Repeated Reward & Recognition
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Teams fail because of:
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Unclear goals and objectives
Non-measurable goals
Ill-defined responsibilities
Inappropriate members
Lack of training in team-working and
problem-solving
Inappropriate Leadership style and
behaviors
Prepared for SYEA Ventures4/3/2008

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Teams fail because of:
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Ineffective meetings
Functional resistance and politics
Individualism or individual creativity
Failure to disband a team once it has
served its purpose
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Useful formulas
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Team = Communication + Participation
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Motivation = Challenge + Cooperation
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System = Vision + Integrity + Training
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No participation = no commitment
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Useful formulas
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Short term gains = long term pains
If you don’t serve your customer, someone
else will
Consistency in quality of communication is
a must
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Finally
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Please remember that there is no “ I” in
TEAM
None of us is as smart as all of us
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31.
TEAM
Together
Everyone
Achieves
More
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