Lots of companies refer to their employees as “team members”, modeling their workplace cultures after sport’s concepts. By extension, they often refer to work colleagues as “teammates”. Given people’s infatuation with and support of their favorite teams, these metaphors drive the concepts of team identity, teamwork, and team spirit, all of which play well in the workplace. There are many correlations that support this theme. Like:
· Managers and supervisors as coaches: Much like a coach’s presence on the sidelines, managers and supervisors can learn from the things their favorite coaches do - putting teams together, providing real-time instruction and follow-through, eyes-on-the-field supervision, and cheering excellence and success.
· A team playbook: pertinent instruction to make sure each individual and the whole team know their parts. On-the-job training is every bit as important as a sport’s teams training. Employees, like players, need to know what’s expected, how to perform, and how it fits into the overall game plan.
· Practice and preparation: Like spring training, new employees need an opportunity to learn and practice so they are well prepared to meet their department’s objectives. Teach your managers and supervisors to understand how best to support this.
· Supporting each other’s moves: When employees are this well prepared, they start to put their personalities into their work, their thinking caps on about helping and supporting others, and hold themselves and their teammates accountable. That’s when performance is at its best.
Your job is to make this possible – by inspiring it, promoting it, supporting it, and celebrating it. Teamwork will make everything better today.
Joe Dumars III (born 1963): American professional basketball executive and former player who is the head of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans.[1]
[1] He could play either shooting guard or point guard on offense and was a highly effective defender. He played his entire 14-year career with the Detroit Pistons. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dumars and Isiah Thomas combined to form one of the best backcourts in NBA history, winning two championships together. Dumars was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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