Building the Winning Team

Some small research of improving and getting a successful team. This article is from www.businesstown.com/people/motivation-team.asp. Maybe it can of some help to some. Highlighted ones is those that i feel slightly more that we need to take note. Building the Winning Team "Everyone wants to feel that they are on a winning team, that the company is moving ahead, and that they are an integral part of the group." Beyond Hiring Great People Building the winning team requires more than just hiring a bunch of talented people. It means hiring people who will work well together. It means developing a shared vision and commitment. It means physically bringing people together in formal group meetings for open discussion of broad-based issues. It means encouraging positive, informal interactions between group members. It means instilling a "winning" attitude throughout the organization. It means watching for and quickly trying to reverse team-building problems such as jealousy, cynicism, and defensive behavior. Meetings Build Teams Part of building the winning team is having some group meetings. Meetings, or even parties or celebrations, with as many people as possible from the entire organization, help build a feeling of solidarity throughout the organization. But it is also important to have everyone participate in smaller group meetings where some work is done or some decisions are made. This makes people feel that they aren't just part of some big group, but that they are an active, important part of a team. For key managers, or people in your work group, you should have an interactive meeting once per week-not a meeting where you just make announcements and summarize the work that's been done and needs to be done, but a meeting where everyone has an opportunity to give feedback on substantive issues. Watch Out For Team Destroyers! Here are some of the problems that can rip the team-building process apart. Jealousy. Be on guard for jealousy whenever a new member is hired into the group. Go out of your way to tell other team members how much their work is appreciated. Cynicism. Some people are just negative by nature. Others might feel your company can't possibly prosper or they just don't like small companies, big companies, or whatever . . . . Be sure you are emphasizing the company's positive achievements to the group as a whole. And don't hesitate to confront any openly cynical individual and demand their behavior change at once. Lack of confidence. Some people lack confidence in themselves and view attacks on their opinions as attacks on themselves, responding with statements like "Are you telling me my fifteen years of experience don't matter?" Stop any discussion like this immediately and, in a private one-on-one meeting, patiently point out the defensive behavior.

CS 08/09 gathering

Today started off at 1pm when i woke up. It is the 15th of the lunar month. Most of the chinese are preparing the offerings for the gods and ancestors. Yep, i am no different... i had to help out my mum to set up the offerings the whole afternoon. Time goes fast and it is 5plus.

I am late for the outing which is suppose to be at 3. It is at simei, at gina house. seriously dam far, had to transfer bus after reaching simei station. I took a short cut and took 969 to tampines first. What's beautiful for this trip is the rainbow that was formed on my trip there. It is the first rainbow that i had seen since secondary school. The rainbow appeared for around 15mins of my journey before it is covered by the dark clouds. Just for everyone's knowledge, rainbow is actually not a semi-circle but a full circle... just that we are unable to see the full circle when we are on the ground.

Anyway, back to the topic, i reached gina house ard 40 mins. The attendance is not that great and we have wei chuan joining us too. I missed out the fun part of buying and preparing of the food items. sobs. But just nice for the start of steamboat. Initially, the soup is not bad but they added tom yum stock into it which i disliked the taste. We eat until super full before having some grapes, tea and indulgence of those sinful chocolates.

We explored Gina's " shuai ge" baby photos and her parents' collections of trophies, pagers, handphones and badges. We even got to know that her mum worked as a macdonald staff and even served in the army before with a rank of sergeant. Cool. Went home with C.c with some thoughts discussed with him..

Update of my life

Have been rotting at home most of the time this month. Suddenly, i feel so empty.. every time i wake up no one is at home... my phone has no msg, has no missed calls, all i have is just disappointment. Apparently, i thought i was ok with no sch life, and alone at home till i get my enlistment date. I was wrong. Maybe i should delete my facebook account. Facebook is the only mean of catching up what my friends are doing in sch... However, I am envy of those outings pictures, events pictures, and comments, discussion that friends actively got. Seeing them made me seriously sad sub-consciously. I dunno why..

Even now when i go for outings, i felt speechless. Those close buddies and friends are cold, we did not have those plentiful common topics which we had when i am still at sch, . I felt odd out, left out, i felt lonely. Someone taught me this, friends can categorized into 3 categories....

(1)Acquaintance (those that you know them, but least or little amount of interaction)

(2)Normal friends/Cliques (those that you know them to the extent of understanding them)

(3)Buddies/best friends (those that you can have heart to heart talk to, strong mutual trust, gives good advices, encouragement and suggestions when you are in the bad times)

In my heart i know that to them i am getting close to (1) I wished to maintain the times that most of them are (2) or (3) but sad to say; now I cant really find a (3). The number of (2)s are also very limited. I am getting close to where i was when i was in primary and secondary sch... almost near zero catching-up with my ex-classmates. My inferiority inside myself is ruling me again. Maybe i should self-outcast myself, i sensed friends that saw me emo-ing and tried starting a conversation but end up in an awkward silence which i really disliked.

I just pray hard my enlistment is as close as possible so as to know what kind of work can try find or escape to the army to prevent me from thinking too much, away from the pain. i cant blamed them but myself for deciding to drop out.

Tertiary lecturers are just working for the high pay, unlike primary or secondary sch where teachers are working to help the students to pass exams and continue on with their studies. I did experienced this from the appeal of restarting my course of study. They are good at pretending to help you but at the back preventing those students bad in studies affect their reputation of their courses/schools... cruelty of the real world.

If u see this, just have a minute of silence for our beloved friend cindy tan

When i woke up this morning and i got like 10sms that she had an car accident and passed away. I was stunned. She has been a cheerful and fun friend to have whenever i feel low during the camp activities, she will always hype-up the atmosphere with her creative ideas and positive attitude. I loved the company of her in facebook games where she is always so enthu in... the last i saw her online was the night before and something happen this morning ='(

i enjoyed the time when i was in the same station games, mass games with her as GPs. Knew her since our batch FOC 08/09... sociable and friendly girl. A friend that i will miss, and will never be the same without her in our lives. Rest in peace, my friend.

Give a minute of silence thinking of what she has done to make an impact in our lives.

Cherish those around, Dont think that they will always be around for you, as life is always full of unexpected.