Building An Effective Team: Mixing Apples and Oranges
Sometimes the process of building an effective team can seem like an impossible mission.
A surprising new perspective may inspire a fresh approach. How? By embracing these differences as assets instead of fighting them. Who says you can’t mix apples and oranges? Didn’t you ever hear of fruit salad? Delicious!
Of course, the first step is to know the nature and flavor of your ingredients. Figuratively speaking, how many hard apples, tough-skinned oranges, prickly pears, and sour grapes are you dealing with? And what recipe will work best to make them a palatable mix?
Charitable team building workshops are the surest recipe for sweet success.
No doubt you have at least one persuasive, never-met-a-stranger hero on your team whose greatest joy in life is shining in the eyes of his colleagues. And there’s almost always an employee on every staff who is more of a results-driven perfectionist than a life-of-the-party type.
Mr. Persuasion can be invaluable in building consensus and rallying the troops around a common cause or deadline. Ms. Perfectionist may not win the prize for congeniality, but where would you be without her exacting eye for details or for getting the job done on time and on budget? The process of building an effective team with these colleagues can be facilitated by adding a very special ingredient called compassion to the mix.
Compassion is the main ingredient in one of our most popular charitable workshops. Our Happy Tails Charity Team Building Workshop is a golden opportunity to help a boy or girl in your community begin an exciting educational adventure by learning how to care for a new puppy or kitten.
It’s a great way to get your two very different colleagues to blend into a winning team. During this heart-warming workshop, they will assemble the basic “pet starter kit” that may make it financially easier for a child’s family to commit to giving a forever home to a shelter animal who would otherwise be euthanized.
Ms. Perfectionist will glory in the opportunity to oversee the details involved in assembling the collar, chew toys, brushes, food bowls, and other items this little critter will need in their new digs.
You can gratify Mr. Persuasion’s need for approval and help to temper it with selflessness because his attention will be on the feelings of the family, the child, and the life of the animal he helped to save.
Both will have the opportunity to work together and bond as teammates. You will have succeeded in building an effective team while building goodwill in your community.
A few fun-filled hours banding together to be a blessing, instead of fighting each other to become a corporate big wig–this will sweeten even the saltiest dispositions among your staff. A charitable team building workshop will give them a reason to join forces out of genuine compassion, and they’ll learn to work together professionally as a real team. Sweet!
