Team Building

Lalit Anjum

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A Team is NOT -

•A group of individuals who all work at the same place. •A group of individuals who happen to have the same manager or supervisor. •A group of individuals who do the same job in the same location.

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A Team IS… Two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent,

who come together to achieve particular objectives.

A group that shares, and says that it shares, a common purpose and recognizes that it needs the efforts of every one of its members to achieve this.

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Team

Task Individual

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T ogether E verybody A chieve M ore

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TEAM WORK – IN

FAMILY

ORGANISATION

SOCIETY

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Once upon a time a tortoise and Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and They agreed on a route and started off the race.started off the race.

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The hare shot ahead and ran The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d sit the tortoise, he thought he’d sit under a tree for some time and under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.relax before continuing the race.

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He sat under the tree and He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed emerging as the undisputed champchamp..

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The hare woke up and The hare woke up and realised that he’d lost the realised that he’d lost the race. The moral of the story race. The moral of the story is that is that ““Slow and steady wins the Slow and steady wins the race”race”

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This is the version of This is the version of the story that we have the story that we have all grown up with.all grown up with.

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But then recently, But then recently, someone told me a more someone told me a more interesting version of this interesting version of this story. story. It continues….It continues….

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The hare was disappointed at The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did losing the race and he did some Defect Prevention (Root some Defect Prevention (Root Cause Analysis). He realized Cause Analysis). He realized that he’d lost the race only that he’d lost the race only because he had been because he had been overconfident, careless & lax.overconfident, careless & lax.

Root Cause

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If he had not taken things for If he had not taken things for granted, there’s no way the granted, there’s no way the tortoise could have beaten him. tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.agreed.

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This time, the hare went This time, the hare went all out & ran without all out & ran without stopping from start to stopping from start to finish. He won by several finish. He won by several miles.miles.

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The moral of the story The moral of the story Fast & consistent will Fast & consistent will

always beat the slow and always beat the slow and steady.steady.

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If you have two people in your If you have two people in your organisation, one slow, organisation, one slow, methodical & reliable, and the methodical & reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently reliable chap will consistently climb theclimb the organisational ladder organisational ladder faster than the slow, methodical faster than the slow, methodical chapchap

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It’s good to be slow It’s good to be slow and steady; but its and steady; but its better to be fast and better to be fast and reliable.reliable.

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But the story doesn’t end here. But the story doesn’t end here. The tortoise did some thinking this The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realised that there’s no time, and realised that there’s no way he can beat the hare in a race way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted.the way it was currently formatted.He thought for a while, and then He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different race, but on a slightly different route.route.

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The hare agreed. They started The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took consistently fast, the hare took off and ran top speed until he off and ran top speed until he came to a broad rivercame to a broad river

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The finishing line was a The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the couple of kilometers on the other side of the riverother side of the riverThe hare sat there wondering The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued the opposite bank, continued walking & finished the race.walking & finished the race.

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•The moral of the story ?The moral of the story ?

•First identify your core First identify your core competency & then change the competency & then change the playing field to suit your core playing field to suit your core competency.competency.

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•The Story still hasn’t ended !The Story still hasn’t ended !

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The hare and the tortoise, by The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty this time, had become pretty good friends & they did some good friends & they did some thinking together. Both realised thinking together. Both realised that the last race could have that the last race could have been run much better.been run much better.

So they decided to do the last So they decided to do the last race again but to run as a team race again but to run as a team this time.this time.

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They started off, and this time the They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. riverbank.

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Then, the tortoise took over and Then, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his swam across with the hare on his back.back.

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•On the opposite bank, the hare On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they’d felt earlier.satisfaction than they’d felt earlier.

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It’s good to be individually brilliant It’s good to be individually brilliant & to have strong core & to have strong core

competencies; but unless you’re competencies; but unless you’re able to work in a team & harness able to work in a team & harness each other’s core competencies, each other’s core competencies, you’ll always perform below par you’ll always perform below par

because there will always be because there will always be situations at which you’ll do situations at which you’ll do

poorly & someone else does well.poorly & someone else does well.

•The moral of the storyThe moral of the story

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Teamwork is mainly about situational

leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a

situation take leadership.

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There are more lessons to There are more lessons to be learnt from this storybe learnt from this story

1. Note that neither the 1. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. gave up after failures. The hare decided to work The hare decided to work harder and put in more harder and put in more effort after his failure.effort after his failure.

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2.2. The tortoise The tortoise changed his strategy changed his strategy because he was because he was already working as already working as hard as he could. In hard as he could. In life, when faced with life, when faced with failure, sometimes it failure, sometimes it is appropriate to is appropriate to work harder and put work harder and put in more effortsin more efforts

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3. Sometimes it is 3. Sometimes it is appropriate to change appropriate to change strategy and try strategy and try something different. something different. And sometimes it is And sometimes it is appropriate to do appropriate to do both.both.

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4.4. The hare and the The hare and the tortoise also learnt tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. another vital lesson. When we stop When we stop competing against a competing against a RivalRival & instead start & instead start competing against competing against the the SituationSituation, we , we perform far better.perform far better. 33

09/16/08