Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of “team building”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wrote about it in my last message a few weeks ago (It’s up on my web-site if you missed it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the more I think about it, the more a few foundational points come into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s like, things that seemed to be a bit lost and shaded in the mist a little while ago have now become crystal clear to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here is another big realization I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As managers, it is not incumbent in our positions to become experts at dealing with resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trying to convince, plead, cajole or otherwise find a peaceful meeting ground of compromise for those on your staff who want you to run the department or store differently is simply a distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, of course we will have differing points of view, opinions and personalities on our team – that’s all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, those who want to ignore your leadership, disrespect your role, disrupt, populate negativity and all the rest, really need to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Positive impact takes focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has to be rowing in the same direction or we’re pretty much going nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re trying to accomplish some big things not get bogged down in making the unworkable somehow work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That mist falling from our eyes means that we’re finally ready to see things that need to be cleaned up, put into order and are now willing to take action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So there you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Team building is a big job and not much else can be built until that first step is strong and together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sincerely encourage you to go for it. <\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Recently, I've been thinking a lot about the topic of \"team building\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wrote about it in my last message a few weeks ago (It's up on my web-site if you missed it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the more I think about it, the more a few foundational points come into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It's like, things that seemed to be a bit lost and shaded in the mist a little while ago have now become crystal clear to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here is another big realization I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As managers, it is not incumbent in our positions to become experts at dealing with resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trying to convince, plead, cajole or otherwise find a peaceful meeting ground of compromise for those on your staff who want you to run the department or store differently is simply a distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, of course we will have differing points of view, opinions and personalities on our team - that's all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, those who want to ignore your leadership, disrespect your role, disrupt, populate negativity and all the rest, really need to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Positive impact takes focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone has to be rowing in the same direction or we're pretty much going nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We're trying to accomplish some big things not get bogged down in making the unworkable somehow work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That mist falling from our eyes means that we're finally ready to see things that need to be cleaned up, put into order and are now willing to take action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So there you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Team building is a big job and not much else can be built until that first step is strong and together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sincerely encourage you to go for it. <\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[3],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1913","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-m2m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1913\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrimanmanagementsupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}