GAS Up Your Team Building

Team building is inherent within all businesses even the single office home office. People do more working together than working separately. We know this from the efforts of horses when harnessed together pull more collectively than separately.
However, people like horses get tired. They lose motivation, focus and direction. The time is now to G.A.S. up your teams to truly have them become exceptional in their job performance.
Start first with goals. Robert Heinlein once stated that In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Take this quote and turn it into action. Ask all of your employees to name the top three goals for the organization. If you do not receive exactly the same 3 answers for all of your employees, then your problem is communication. And the real concern should be is what are all of these missed steps costing your company?
Next look at the attitudes within your company. These attitudes are individual as well as those that are now cemented within the organization’s culture. Is there a do as I say and not as I do corporate culture attitude?
Some say attitudes are habits of thoughts. Are the habits of your team great or not so great? Effective team building must look at everyone’s attitudes and work to improve those attitudes from good to great.
Finally, look to develop self leadership skills in everyone from the top of the business to the front line workers. Business is really about people working with other people with the goal of some sort of gain. To improve these interactions requires strong interpersonal skills.
Sometimes, people think that team building is about putting together a group of people and have them do joint team building activities. This is a good team building strategy. However, if the individuals cannot accomplish individual goals or lead themselves, how can they truly work effectively as a team?