Thursday, December 11, 2008

Is the value of teamwork eluding people?

Is the value of teamwork eluding people? An interesting picture has emerged from a recent opinion poll on teamwork. For example, 53% of respondents felt teams are overrated versus 47% who felt they are underrated. This split fell across gender lines, with the preponderance of women believing teams are overrated. Additionally, men tended to believe the ideal team size to be between 5-10 members, while women preferred a smaller gathering of 2- 4 people.

A surprising 35% of respondents agreed with the statement, “I currently work/play with the best team ever.” Nearly 50% disagreed, and of that 25% of them were women.

What’s going on here? Aren’t teams supposed to help? Have time strapped multitasking women adopted the, “If you want something done right you have to do it yourself” mentality? What’s your theory?

Teams do work. When they work well they get desired results faster. Who are your role model teams from 2008 and what have you learned from them?

Think beyond sports teams, although they aren’t excluded. Describe how they used Vision, Passion and Action to achieve great results.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i recently helped a female friend move from her brothers house to her own apartment. no men were available during this time so 5 women friends of mine showed up to help. 3 were sisters, 2 were mother and daughter. the seven of us had all of her furniture and boxes loaded up in the u-haul in an hours time. her brother ask if we'd be available to help him move the next weekend. we declined!(her brother offered no assistance helping us)
when we got to her new apartment, we noticed a car parked right in the unloading line. the man who owned the car gladly moved it for us then watched for a while as two women unloaded the truck, two moved the items up the stairs, three put boxes in the right rooms. this group of women worked very well together. better than most 'teams' of men i'd had move me before. the man who owned the car actually went and bought pizza & soda for us. his comment:
"i've never seen just women move someone before. it was like watching a group of bees work on flowers."

our ages? 16-50
our teamwork rocked~