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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Our Teams consist of self-motivated men with purpose and direction.
You don't throw together a "team" you select them.
Now if you are attempting to make individuals work as a team you must have team oriented challenges where "all" must participate.
TS
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Good point. You have to either select them up front (best) or suffer through inefficiencies/dysfunctionality unil you weed out those who aren't going to work out.
The comment on "all" participating also touches on motivation (Just as TR did in his post). Teams are made up of individuals and individuals either are or are not motivated. Now, developing an effective selection process makes the task of motivating the individuals easier as you can put together teams of like individuals who can be motivated using the same/similar techniques. If not, then you have to look hard at each as an individual and come up of a combination of "positive" and "negative" techniques to motivate the individual members to participate equally.
Once the team faces challenges and achieves some degree of success (too hard a challenge too early will prevent the team from effectively forming) it will begin to bond together as the individuals see that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Sun Tsu very effectivly motivated the King's concubines to become and perform as an organized Army...and you can bet they were interested to learn more... but alas, that technique would not work well in your situation...
