Extract from Creating Great Teams by Peter Danby

There has been much research and companies now use drama classes, sailing trips, abseiling, raft building and a whole host of other ‘team building’ events and activities to enhance their team performance. There are models explaining pretty much everything to do with team dynamics, the functions that need to be fulfilled, the roles that need to exist and the feelings that are generated within teams and groups. And yet, despite all these helpful tools, effective let alone high performance teamwork is a rare and fragile flower. They exist in many walks of life. They can spring up incredibly quickly from a new group of individuals ...or disappear overnight when one or two people change within a group and, very occasionally, they sustain those levels of performance over an extended period. There is a magic and a chemistry in the great teams – an indefinable quality that emanates from the mix of characters in that team and especially from the team leader. But from my own experience and observations in the military, on the sports field and work in the business world and from my studies of the history I know that there are certain principles of effective and high performance teamwork? They are simple enough to state here but a huge test of commitment and discipline to implement. There is no magic ingredient to this game – teamwork comes from hard work. I have seen no other option.


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