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Why Team Culture?
It is becoming increasingly important that
teams function
productively with a minimum of supervision. Team culture ensures that
individual members both demonstrate their best talents and function
synergistically
as a unit to achieve common goals.
When team culture reigns, teams
are dependable and consistent. People voice their opinions openly. They
demonstrate
creativity,
innovate
and see a job through to conclusion.
Balanced Organization:
5 Basic Elements
Empowered Employees
(Fire):
3 Strategies of Market Leaders
Leadership-Management
Synergy
Leaders:
Inspire.
Managers: Coordinate.
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Resulting synergy:
Teamwork...
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Inspirational Leader:
10 Roles
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Build teams and promote and teamwork,
leverage diversity.
Teamwork is essential for competing
in today's global arena. Build a star team, not a team of stars.
Diversity of thought, perception, background and experience enhance
the creativity and innovation. A team should not just be diverse; it
has to make the most of it. Involve everyone, facilitate
cross-pollination of ideas,
build and empower
cross-functional teams if
you wish to
harness the power of diversity.
Challenge people from different disciplines and
cultures to come up with something better together and achieve
creative breakthroughs...
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Case in Point
Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
The IEHP Team Culture supports a system to
provide the best health care possible to people who need IEHP's collective
support. It is how employees interact with one another...the professionalism
and respect they exhibit to each other, how they learn and communicate with
one another, those outside of their organization and, most importantly, the
IEHP Members.
It’s a
corporate culture that supports the
idea that all Team Members are valued...individuals can
make a difference...
but to do so requires a positive and interactive approach with other members
of IEHP's team...remembering that IEHP Members are the center of IEHP's
universe.
Below are the highlights that create and
maintain the IEHP Team Culture:
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Focus on our Member’s needs, our reason for
being.
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You are valued.
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Your opinion is important.
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Your job is very important to our
success...you can make a difference.
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Your involvement in our team environment is
essential.
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Work as a Team Member... you won’t make it
alone.
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Always ask a Team Member if they need
help...don’t wait to be asked.
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Be involved in our success.
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Work with others in a cooperative manner.
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Treat all Team Members with respect...it’s
their job to return that respect.
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Constantly strive to improve everything you
do, every process you are involved in, everything you touch.
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It’s okay to
have fun...you
should be happy at work.
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Be a positive influence on everyone you
interact with.
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Expect to work at a high level of activity.
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You have joined a winning team...it’s
something to be proud of and be a part of.
Finally, you must be a proponent of the IEHP
Team Culture...its success, your success and our organization’s success
depends upon it. If each Team Member supports the Team Culture, it will
happen and we will continue to have an extraordinary place in which to work
and succeed.
Case in Point
GE
Determined to harness the
collective power of GE employees, create a free flow of ideas, and
redefine relationships between boss and subordinates,
Jack Welch,
the former CEO of
GE, created a new corporate
culture.
At GE,
corporate values are so important to the company, that Jack Welch had
them inscribed and distributed to all GE employees, at every level of the
company.
The sum is greater than its parts at GE as both
business and people
diversity is utilized in a most effective way. A major American
enterprise with a diverse group of huge businesses, GE is steeped in a
learning culture and it is this fact that makes GE a unique company...
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25 Lessons from Jack Welch
Case in Point
BMG
BMG is a Australian multi-award winning
consultancy firm dedicated to providing their clients with the technical
expertise and guidance needed to achieve clients' financial and lifestyle
goals.
Team culture is a distinctive feature of BMG.
The BMG's Team Culture statement reads as follows:
BMG's operating structure has only one layer
between the team and our board of management. Our
inclusive culture enables all team members to actively participate in
the firm's decision-making processes. We have open channels of communication
where expressions of opinion and suggestions from all team members are
openly encouraged and highly valued.
The firm empowers and supports team members in
reaching mutually agreed goals by providing on-going training and industry
best systems and resources.
We seek to support the health, well-being and
work/personal life balance of team members and to provide a working
experience that creates a sense of pride, value and achievement in the work
we do.
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