Teamwork building without walls

Imagine a basketball team that leads the court. Something strange has happened to this team. Somehow a powerful force field has surrounded each player. The opposing team can get to these players, but their teammates can not come within five meters.

When they dropped their teammates can not help them up. When they want to pass a ball field strength makes it impossible to be close enough. When they want to get together to talk must shout to be heard and the opposing team gets to know their game plan.

This would not be a very effective way to manage a basketball team, but this is often the way enterprises operate. Walls built businesses that are both physical and invisible. The titles are assigned and employees are placed in a box and gave very specific job descriptions.

Some employees like this segmented approach to business, because everything is neat and everyone knows what they should do.

What happens if the guy in the box five just happens to have some insight into something that the boy in the box seven is working? Remember the force field of basketball? This is the way in business. Too often employees have understood the concept of wall all too well and are ready to say: "This is not my job."

When it comes to team building a good team really starts with the knowledge that as a team, each member should be free to offer suggestions to make the game plan. The team leader will call the games, but the skills of all members are used to develop a plan that makes the overall team success.

What happens if your team regularly had time to spend together dreaming big dreams and the sharing of intellectual and intuitive resources (call it a game plan if you wish) for the company to take the next step, to stir the giant asleep, and take a chance?

At times, relying on a team like this has its risks, not every game will be won, but the ability to unleash the creative business for the benefit of business and personal satisfaction is a concept that inspires some of the most maverick new businesses to think outside the schemes.

Apple is an example of a company that thinks outside the box and offers products that stir the imagination. Their success is due in part to the principles of team building that removes many walls so that the techno-geeks are sharing space with the boys gadgets and marketing boys are learning what they can from the technical team.

The hard truth is the team building should involve interactive team am. Can not exist in a world where team members are used, saying: "But I do not."

Walls do not work in basketball and not working in the company. In the words of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, "Tear down the walls" .......