BUILDING TEAM COOPERATION

In the workplace, cooperation represents the blending of many skills to produce collective achievement. Even in teams where some members are competitive in nature, there are simple things you can do inspire genuine cooperation.

FOCUS ON TEAM GOALS –Keeping the team’s goals uppermost in everyone’s mind and explaining how each person’s tasks contribute to the team’s mission, encourages team members to be more cooperative as individuals in order to be more competitive as a team.

FOCUS TEAM MEMBERS ON DOING THEIR BEST (NOT ON “BESTING” OTHER TEAMMATES) – Make sure members know that they’ve been put on the team not to show what they can do personally, but rather to assist in making the TEAM successful.  Identify each person’s strengths from the perspective of how those strengths will blend with others to help the team achieve its desired outcomes.

REWARD THE TEAM BY DISTRIBUTING REWARDS COOPERATIVELY RATHER THAN COMPETITIVELY – Celebrate as a group when the team defeats its “opponent” (such as solving a key problem) and only then recognize individual contributions toward that victory.

DON’T CONFINE COOPERATION – Apply the Team Concept Beyond the Team Itself – Encourage team members to find ways of cooperating with other departments and outside entities in order to uncover fresh insights and new ways of doing things.

Let us help you build a winning team: contact Terri Codd MCF Corporate Training & Life Coach: 076 751 3556: coddterri@gmail.com: terricodd.blogspot.com 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT 

 

Do you and your business create the right impression? Do they speak positively for you? Do they convey the true message that you want conveyed?

These may sound like stupid questions, but ask yourself for example, would you take health advice from an overweight, wheezing, chain smoking doctor?  Or would you take investment advice from a financial advisor who doesn’t appear to be even moderately prosperous? Can you imagine the pilot of your international Jumbo jet flight appearing in surf shorts, a T shirt and flip flops? Would it not shake your confidence a little?

Let me ask as well about your business communications. Are they written in email or text language or are they written as a good business communication should be, well structured, correctly spelt, with the full meaning clearly communicated?

We live in a world which in many ways has become more and more relaxed, which is fine in a social setting but may be detrimental in a business environment, largely because these skills are not understood or being taught.

This is where we can help, whether it be projecting the right image, interacting with customers and colleagues, business writing skills, preparing and presenting various business presentations, selling skills and much more, we can offer customised training to suit your business, your staff and your budget.

So why not contact us today to find out more – it will cost you nothing more than a little of your time.  

Email: coddterri@gmail.com: Cell 076 751 3556: terricodd.blogspot.com

THE 1% RULE - ACCUMULATING SUCCESS

Success is an accumulation event, it’s not about intensity it’s about consistency.

Consistency is the secret behind motivation and ultimately success.

Let’s take an example: you want to get in shape so you start at the gym. You set yourself great long-term goals. After your first workout you take a look in the mirror, or weigh yourself. Do you see a difference? I doubt it. But what if you set your goal to improve 1% a month, or even 1% a week. Much easier to maintain as a goal and therefore much easier to stay motivated from day to day. Over time you not only will see, and experience, a difference, but you will continue to improve. 

Consistency is doing something, even a little, on a daily basis. Consistency wins, even if you do cheat now and then, and even at only 1% at a time.

This law of 1%, incremental gains, applies, no matter what we want to achieve. When we consistently apply ourselves to doing what needs to be done, we will continue to improve, and our best will surely get better. This is what excellence really is, that consistent journey of betterment.

No matter what you desire to succeed at, be it business, sales, leadership, being a better husband or wife, health, fitness, sporting achievements, the list goes on and on, this 1% rule of consistency and incremental gains applies.

So, no matter how little , start today and, even though you may not see it straight away, keep at it and your success is guaranteed.

For more information contact us and discover how we can help you or your business:  Terri Codd MCF Corporate Training & Life Coach: 076 751 3556: coddterri@gmail.com: terri@m-c-f.co.za: terricodd.blogspot.com