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Effective Team Building Part 1 Another Brick in the Wall
Team Building part 1 ? Another Brick in the Wall?
The first in a series of articles giving a slightly different viewpoint on effective team building, condensed from an original seminar presented by the author, John Roberts. John is a Freelance Training Consultant and director of JayrConsulting Ltd. Part 1 deals with selecting and building the initial team. The ideas expressed are personal opinions built up from many years of experience in the Electronics/Aerospace industry, the Armed Forces, the Telecoms industry and the Training industry. There is no suggestion of this being a 100% solution applicable to or workable in all situations, but it is aimed at getting people to think outside of the norm and question the ‘normal’ way of doing things.
1. Analogy ? The bricks in the wall
Most people have been on some form of ‘team building’ course. They vary according to contemporary fashion from things like ‘learning how to work together, to build bridges out of sheets of paper’, to the more active residential courses, where people build rafts out of rope and washing up liquid bottles, to ‘cross a crocodile filled’ ravine! They all have two things in common: –
(a) They tend to be very expensive in terms of cost per delegate to the participants.
(b) They are actually not very effective in building effective teams when people return to their real life situation.
Teams are about individual PEOPLE and the INDIVIDUAL skills that they bring to the team and how these should be selected and put together to form an effective and lasting entity. All that is needed can be covered in a 1-day seminar/discussion with a group of delegates with no more props than a white board and marker pen. If it is delivered in such a way that the delegates can be coerced to look at themselves and their teams HONESTLY, it can provide effective change in team culture, creating belief and ‘buy in’ from delegates and without imposing high expenses on clients.
The analogy that I use to explain the basic ideas is that of building a wall, and I use two types of wall to explain the contemporary team building model and the alternative one. The contemporary model is likened to a ‘standard’ brick wall and the alternative model is likened to a ‘dry stone’ wall, of the type found in northern fields!
2. The contemporary model and it’s shortcomings!
Visualise a contemporary brick wall: Bricks all the same size, weight and shape. In order to stand up the bricks have to be ‘glued’ together with mortar. Bricks must be aligned exactly in rows vertically and horizontally or the wall will fall down. The mortar has to be replaced periodically, or the wall falls down. If a brick is not exactly the same size as all the others it has to be padded out with extra mortar, or ? the wall falls down! The bricklayer has to keep tending the wall ? replacing mortar etc. ? or the wall falls down! Life of wall is fairly limited due to wearing out of materials, so eventually ? the wall falls down! Bricklayer is competent enough, as long as the bricks match and he has an ongoing supply of mortar and the time to effect repairs.
Key: – Bricks = Individuals and their skills
Mortar = support from Team Leader and Human resources ( competencies, assessments etc )
Bricklayer = Team leader
Problems often start at the recruitment stage. The recruiter ( Team leader or manager ) tends to put together an all-encompassing job description, instead of isolating specific individual EXPERT skills that are required for the project and are very unlikely to all be expert skills for one person. You only have to look at the average recruitment advert to see the types of skill lists that people ask for from one delegate!
Human resources then compile a list of required competencies based on this information that ALL delegates have to fit into ? and we are well on the way to selecting our almost identical bricks.
What tends to happen now is that you have a team of good ‘all rounders’ but few people with exciting expert skills in any one thing. So what you get is a team that is competent but not outstanding and this has become the normal model that people tend to have become used to. This type of team conforms to all of the standard corporate ‘norms’ and is much easier to deal with for a ‘team leader’ that is also possibly not a truly expert and exciting ‘leader’.
Remember ? ‘if you do what you have always done ? you get what you have always got!’
Over the years I have experienced too many of these types of teams ( and team leaders ) and I know it can be done much better!
The problem is then compounded by the fashion for ‘competencies’ and ‘Annual assessments’. Managers and team leaders are told to assess their team members annually and to concentrate on improving their ‘weaknesses’! WHY?
Firstly ? any team leader that waits a year to point out a problem to one of their team should not be doing the job! Communication and feedback between the leader and all team members should be continuous and open at all times.
Next ? why concentrate on improving their weaknesses ? all you are going to do is end up with a collection of ‘cloned’ bricks again! What you should be doing is emphasising the team members’ positives and constantly improving their strengths ? the very skills you hired them for in the first place. If you have someone who is a brilliant programmer, then you want to help them be an even better programmer for the sake of the project and the team ? someone else in the team probably has good report writing skills or whatever.
Different people are good at different things ? use it, don’t suppress it!
3. The alternative model ? not new but it works!
Visualise a ‘dry stone wall’ of the type often used for field boundaries. Stones are all different shapes and sizes ? they are selected from what is available, in the right order so that they overlap and fit with each other perfectly to provide a solid fit.
This means that no stone is the ‘wrong’ size as long as you find others to fit around it. It doesn’t matter if all the stones are perfectly aligned as long as they all mesh together to give the wall stability.
There is no mortar used in the wall, it’s all down to the skill of the bricklayer selecting the correct stones in the first place so that the individual stones all support each other in the complete wall. The wall doesn’t fall down for centuries!
The wall doesn’t look as uniform and pretty as the brick wall on the surface but actually performs its’ task far better. The bricklayer has to have a real skill in selecting the right shaped stones to make sure they all fit together well in the first place, but once he has done that, maintenance is minimal!
Key: – Stones = Individuals and their skills
Mortar = support from Team Leader and Human resources ( competencies, assessments etc )
Bricklayer = Team leader
The first thing that is needed before you can recruit and build a team for you project is an expert ‘brick layer’ or REAL Team LEADER! ( Not a manager/coordinator or facilitator). This doesn’t mean someone who happens to have been in the company the longest and is thought due for promotion. It doesn’t mean someone who can write good reports and do all the administration properly ? it means someone who can LEAD PEOPLE! This is someone who can control, cajole, coerce and do anything necessary to get people to perform at their own best whenever it is required, at the same time gaining respect from those around them that they have to deal with. They don’t bully, shout or ‘use their position’ to get things done, people respond to them naturally and TRUST them. It’s NOT a promotion, it’s another type of skill and you should look for this type of person in all levels of the organisation.
You can teach anyone to play the piano, but not everyone can be a top concert pianist ? it is just a skill that some people have and not others. Leadership is exactly the same ? you can send someone on a ‘Team Leaders’ course and they will be able to go through the motions of team leading, but what you should look for is a ‘natural’ ? someone who has the ability to really LEAD people.
If no one of your present employees stands out as having this ability ? look outside for someone. It is not worth compromising on this all important position ? remember you need someone to put that wall together effectively to get the best results!
The team leader should then be tasked with putting together the team ? selecting the strengths that are needed from individual people and making sure that their weaknesses are covered by other people in the team, so that you are putting together the ‘stone wall’ with all the members supporting each other. As the team is growing, all of the team members should take part in the recruitment and interviewing process ? after all they will have a feel for how someone will fit in with the rest of them. Giving everybody some responsibility for how the team is put together gives them all a stake in its success.
From the start there should be honest and open communication between all of the team members and the team leader. There should be no need for ‘Annual assessments’. The Team leader should be aware at all times how their team members are performing in various areas, and in an honest and open environment the team members themselves should be aware of any shortcomings and work towards solving them. A good team actually need very little maintenance input from the Team Leader and should very quickly become self-supporting, just like the stone wall.
Summary
So, if you are considering building a new team, try approaching it in a different light. Think of the people, the skills you want individuals to have ? not the skills they don’t have, the overall skills that you want the whole team to have and how they all fit together to give you a solid foundation. Choose a proper ‘Team LEADER’ to maintain it and put contemporary ideas of ‘assessments’ and ‘competencies’ behind you!
( Don’t tell your HR manager this, unless they are lying down in a darkened room ! )
Team Building part 2 ? Honesty is the Key! Will focus on the running of the team once it is built and will be published shortly
Acknowledgements
Adapted from an original article by John Roberts, freelance training consultant, Director of JayrConsulting Ltd. www.jayrconsulting.co.uk This article may be freely reproduced / modified and used in any way, providing this acknowledgement is left in its entirety.
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Team Building part 1 ? Another Brick in the Wall?
The first in a series of articles giving a slightly different viewpoint on effective team building, condensed from an original seminar presented by the author, John Roberts. John is a Freelance Training Consultant and director of JayrConsulting Ltd. Part 1 deals with selecting and building the initial team. The ideas expressed are personal opinions built up from many years of experience in the Electronics/Aerospace industry, the Armed Forces, the Telecoms industry and the Training industry. There is no suggestion of this being a 100% solution applicable to or workable in all situations, but it is aimed at getting people to think outside of the norm and question the ‘normal’ way of doing things.
1. Analogy ? The bricks in the wall
Most people have been on some form of ‘team building’ course. They vary according to contemporary fashion from things like ‘learning how to work together, to build bridges out of sheets of paper’, to the more active residential courses, where people build rafts out of rope and washing up liquid bottles, to ‘cross a crocodile filled’ ravine! They all have two things in common: –
(a) They tend to be very expensive in terms of cost per delegate to the participants.
(b) They are actually not very effective in building effective teams when people return to their real life situation.
Teams are about individual PEOPLE and the INDIVIDUAL skills that they bring to the team and how these should be selected and put together to form an effective and lasting entity. All that is needed can be covered in a 1-day seminar/discussion with a group of delegates with no more props than a white board and marker pen. If it is delivered in such a way that the delegates can be coerced to look at themselves and their teams HONESTLY, it can provide effective change in team culture, creating belief and ‘buy in’ from delegates and without imposing high expenses on clients.
The analogy that I use to explain the basic ideas is that of building a wall, and I use two types of wall to explain the contemporary team building model and the alternative one. The contemporary model is likened to a ‘standard’ brick wall and the alternative model is likened to a ‘dry stone’ wall, of the type found in northern fields!
2. The contemporary model and it’s shortcomings!
Visualise a contemporary brick wall: Bricks all the same size, weight and shape. In order to stand up the bricks have to be ‘glued’ together with mortar. Bricks must be aligned exactly in rows vertically and horizontally or the wall will fall down. The mortar has to be replaced periodically, or the wall falls down. If a brick is not exactly the same size as all the others it has to be padded out with extra mortar, or ? the wall falls down! The bricklayer has to keep tending the wall ? replacing mortar etc. ? or the wall falls down! Life of wall is fairly limited due to wearing out of materials, so eventually ? the wall falls down! Bricklayer is competent enough, as long as the bricks match and he has an ongoing supply of mortar and the time to effect repairs.
Key: – Bricks = Individuals and their skills
Mortar = support from Team Leader and Human resources ( competencies, assessments etc )
Bricklayer = Team leader
Problems often start at the recruitment stage. The recruiter ( Team leader or manager ) tends to put together an all-encompassing job description, instead of isolating specific individual EXPERT skills that are required for the project and are very unlikely to all be expert skills for one person. You only have to look at the average recruitment advert to see the types of skill lists that people ask for from one delegate!
Human resources then compile a list of required competencies based on this information that ALL delegates have to fit into ? and we are well on the way to selecting our almost identical bricks.
What tends to happen now is that you have a team of good ‘all rounders’ but few people with exciting expert skills in any one thing. So what you get is a team that is competent but not outstanding and this has become the normal model that people tend to have become used to. This type of team conforms to all of the standard corporate ‘norms’ and is much easier to deal with for a ‘team leader’ that is also possibly not a truly expert and exciting ‘leader’.
Remember ? ‘if you do what you have always done ? you get what you have always got!’
Over the years I have experienced too many of these types of teams ( and team leaders ) and I know it can be done much better!
The problem is then compounded by the fashion for ‘competencies’ and ‘Annual assessments’. Managers and team leaders are told to assess their team members annually and to concentrate on improving their ‘weaknesses’! WHY?
Firstly ? any team leader that waits a year to point out a problem to one of their team should not be doing the job! Communication and feedback between the leader and all team members should be continuous and open at all times.
Next ? why concentrate on improving their weaknesses ? all you are going to do is end up with a collection of ‘cloned’ bricks again! What you should be doing is emphasising the team members’ positives and constantly improving their strengths ? the very skills you hired them for in the first place. If you have someone who is a brilliant programmer, then you want to help them be an even better programmer for the sake of the project and the team ? someone else in the team probably has good report writing skills or whatever.
Different people are good at different things ? use it, don’t suppress it!
3. The alternative model ? not new but it works!
Visualise a ‘dry stone wall’ of the type often used for field boundaries. Stones are all different shapes and sizes ? they are selected from what is available, in the right order so that they overlap and fit with each other perfectly to provide a solid fit.
This means that no stone is the ‘wrong’ size as long as you find others to fit around it. It doesn’t matter if all the stones are perfectly aligned as long as they all mesh together to give the wall stability.
There is no mortar used in the wall, it’s all down to the skill of the bricklayer selecting the correct stones in the first place so that the individual stones all support each other in the complete wall. The wall doesn’t fall down for centuries!
The wall doesn’t look as uniform and pretty as the brick wall on the surface but actually performs its’ task far better. The bricklayer has to have a real skill in selecting the right shaped stones to make sure they all fit together well in the first place, but once he has done that, maintenance is minimal!
Key: – Stones = Individuals and their skills
Mortar = support from Team Leader and Human resources ( competencies, assessments etc )
Bricklayer = Team leader
The first thing that is needed before you can recruit and build a team for you project is an expert ‘brick layer’ or REAL Team LEADER! ( Not a manager/coordinator or facilitator). This doesn’t mean someone who happens to have been in the company the longest and is thought due for promotion. It doesn’t mean someone who can write good reports and do all the administration properly ? it means someone who can LEAD PEOPLE! This is someone who can control, cajole, coerce and do anything necessary to get people to perform at their own best whenever it is required, at the same time gaining respect from those around them that they have to deal with. They don’t bully, shout or ‘use their position’ to get things done, people respond to them naturally and TRUST them. It’s NOT a promotion, it’s another type of skill and you should look for this type of person in all levels of the organisation.
You can teach anyone to play the piano, but not everyone can be a top concert pianist ? it is just a skill that some people have and not others. Leadership is exactly the same ? you can send someone on a ‘Team Leaders’ course and they will be able to go through the motions of team leading, but what you should look for is a ‘natural’ ? someone who has the ability to really LEAD people.
If no one of your present employees stands out as having this ability ? look outside for someone. It is not worth compromising on this all important position ? remember you need someone to put that wall together effectively to get the best results!
The team leader should then be tasked with putting together the team ? selecting the strengths that are needed from individual people and making sure that their weaknesses are covered by other people in the team, so that you are putting together the ‘stone wall’ with all the members supporting each other. As the team is growing, all of the team members should take part in the recruitment and interviewing process ? after all they will have a feel for how someone will fit in with the rest of them. Giving everybody some responsibility for how the team is put together gives them all a stake in its success.
From the start there should be honest and open communication between all of the team members and the team leader. There should be no need for ‘Annual assessments’. The Team leader should be aware at all times how their team members are performing in various areas, and in an honest and open environment the team members themselves should be aware of any shortcomings and work towards solving them. A good team actually need very little maintenance input from the Team Leader and should very quickly become self-supporting, just like the stone wall.
Summary
So, if you are considering building a new team, try approaching it in a different light. Think of the people, the skills you want individuals to have ? not the skills they don’t have, the overall skills that you want the whole team to have and how they all fit together to give you a solid foundation. Choose a proper ‘Team LEADER’ to maintain it and put contemporary ideas of ‘assessments’ and ‘competencies’ behind you!
( Don’t tell your HR manager this, unless they are lying down in a darkened room ! )
Team Building part 2 ? Honesty is the Key! Will focus on the running of the team once it is built and will be published shortly
Acknowledgements
Adapted from an original article by John Roberts, freelance training consultant, Director of JayrConsulting Ltd. www.jayrconsulting.co.uk This article may be freely reproduced / modified and used in any way, providing this acknowledgement is left in its entirety.
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The security of domain name registrations is an increasing concern for domain name registrants and registrars. However, there are steps you can take to increase the security of your domain name registrations.
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All Domain Names have a password based security. All Domain Names belonging to a particular Customer can only be modified through the right Username and Password combination of that customer.
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Ok..what should you do now ?
If you own a domain name for your business or personal use, run, don’t walk, to the phone, call the company you registered the name with, and make sure that name is “locked down.”
If you don’t, you could easily lose your rights to that domain. And whether your Web site is an integral part of your business, or just keyed to your family’s activities, waking up one morning without it could range from inconvenient to disastrous.
Just check the WHOIS of the domain. Every domain name will have a column STATUS in the whois.
Make sure it shows as below :
Domain Status : LOCKED
Note:This Domain Name is currently Locked. In this status the domain name cannot be transferred, hijacked, or modified. The Owner of this domain name can easily change this status from their control panel. This feature is provided as a security measure against fraudulent domain name hijacking.
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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Have you wondered what it would be like to get up every morning and be in control of your financial destiny without having to depend on a job? Perhaps you enjoy your job and you simply want to start a part-time business from home to supplement your income but the problem is you have very little extra money to invest in a new venture.
If this is your dream then now is the time. Never before in history has there been a better time to start a home business and this is especially true for those on a limited budget. Why is this so? The answer is simple. The World Wide Web. The Internet has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to start home businesses working from home with very little start up cash. It is now possible for individuals working from home in their pajamas to start businesses and compete in the global marketplace on the same playing field as large corporations. Anyone with a service or something to sell can build a website and using the available and often free tools on the Internet be in business almost instantly.
Setting up an Internet home business usually has much lower start up costs than the traditional brick and mortar alternative. With a traditional business there are significant overhead expenses which are usually due even before you can start making money. These expenses include: rent for office or store space, inventory to stock your store if you are planning to sell retail products, advertising, liability insurance, and the list goes on. In fact it can costs thousands
Starting an internet business has much lower start up costs because your store is in cyberspace and your office is in your home. You can find numerous low costs options for building websites online as well as suppliers who will ship your products to your customers as they are purchased instead of storing huge amounts of products which is expensive and takes up storage space
One of the best ways to get started on a low budget is by selling products on eBay. Millions of people are shopping on eBay every single day looking for just about every kind of product you can imagine. One of the reasons eBay is such a great place to start a home business on a budget is because the traffic is already there. Ebay has already done the advertising and all you need to do is show up and post your products. If you were to build your own website you would need to market your site and buyers would need to find it before they could buy from you. Secondly, eBay has taken the expense and difficulty out of building an Internet store. For a low monthly fee you can build an Internet store on eBay complete with your own logo and a shopping cart system. This is actually very similar to setting up shop in a mall in the brick and mortar world.
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There are many other opportunities on the Internet for starting your own home business. It is recommended that you take some time to research the various options but be careful of scams. If you do an Internet search on topics such as “home business” or “work at home” you are likely to find a lot of good information but you will also find many scams that promise riches only to take your money and leave you with nothing to show for it. The best tip for avoiding scams on the Internet is the old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true ? it probably is.”
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If you are an avid sports fan, then you probably don’t get your fill of sports news and games from just watching TV alone. Sure the games are all on TV and you can get a number of packages through your satellite TV or cable company to watch even more games and get even more sports coverage, but in order to read all of the articles, review player stats and get more in depth insider information you need to connect to the Internet. If you want to have the best experience doing so, make sure you are connecting with a high-speed satellite broadband Internet service provider.
There are lots of websites that you can visit to fill your need to live and breath sports. Most people are into one sport in particular, but usually all of them will covered on espn.com. ESPN is the leader in sports news coverage and is where millions of Americans go each day to read sports articles, check stats and read player, expert and reporter commentary on everything from in season games to off season training camp. ESPN even has different websites dedicated to cities that provide even more in depth coverage of the sports teams of that city. For instance, there is an enormous website that is dedicated just for ESPN New York, Chicago, Los Angles, and the list goes on. In addition to ESPN, each association has their own parent website such as NFL.com, NHL.com and NBA.com. And under that each team in the league has its own website and satellite websites. The list of websites that sports fans can visit goes on and on and a person could spend all day in front of the computer reading articles and statistics. If you are a sports fan and would like to do that, make sure that you have high-speed satellite Internet going into your home because if you don’t then you will be spending an awful lot of time sitting in front of the computer waiting for a page to load instead of using that time to read. And if you don’t have high-speed Internet, forget about watching video clips or game casts. Video clips and game casts take more than a 56k modem to download properly or stream without interruption.
So if you are a sports fan and you want to supplement your television watching with articles and statistic reports, then make sure you have a high-speed Internet connection in your home. You can often get a package that is combined with your television and phone to make everything cheaper and easier to pay at the end of the month as well. And, this awesome package, you could even be watching the game, checking the player stats and talking to your best friend about the game and the players all at the same time. And you can do all of this with ease as long as you have satellite powering your connection so it’s running at the speed you are.
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Sports Channels a Brief History of Sports Broadcasting in the UK
Sports broadcasting in the UK has been in effect since the mid 1920?s when the first ever live sports broadcast was made via radio in January 1927. The broadcast covered a Rugby Union international match played between England and Wales, and was broadcast from the England team?s national rugby stadium, Twickenham.
Just two weeks later, the first live broadcast of a football match took place. The match between Arsenal and Sheffield United at Arsenal?s then home ground, Highbury, was also broadcast via radio and listeners were able to keep track of where on the pitch the action was taking place by way of a published numbered grid in the Radio Times; the grid-references of where play was happening being read out by a second commentator.
With the first television sports broadcast coming in 1936 ? the Berlin Summer Olympic Games ? it was a natural progression that television broadcasting would expand to other sports, although in those times such broadcasts were usually shown as a delayed broadcast. The first live UK television sports broadcast in September 1937 was shown by the BBC and was a specially arranged match between Arsenal and their reserve team.
Since then, live sport on television has become a staple part of many people?s Saturday afternoons and dedicated sports shows such as Grandstand and World Of Sport were devised to bring live sports such as rugby, motor racing, horse racing and wrestling among other sports into living rooms around the UK.
Sports broadcasting took another evolutionary step with the introduction of satellite television, which allowed operators to purchase and broadcast live sports events from around the world. As interest in these sports grew ? many of which were new to the UK – satellite operators introduced new sports channels to meet an ever-increasing demand and this in turn gave rise to new opportunities of live sports broadcasting such as Pay-Per-View events, high-definition broadcasts and most recently 3D broadcasting.
Dedicated sports channels have also came to life, with several top UK football clubs introducing their own TV channels, while horse racing fans have received the benefit of two dedicated channels to the Sport of Kings.
With sports broadcasting on TV continuing to evolve and adapt to new demands, markets and technologies, it?s all a far cry from those early days of radio commentary ? which still goes on today – and consulting numbered grids to keep track of the action.
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