If you want to have a business that achieves, and is a pleasant place to work, you can't do it without teams.

Team Building:  An Overused Phrase
There has been rah-rah about team building throughout industry for close to 30 years now, and most business leaders have become heartily sick of hearing it.  But the truth is, many of the approaches taken to build teams have been - at best - what we at Rodeo! called "aspirin" approaches:  "Take this training and call me if the pain hasn't gone away."  Great Team Building includes both education and skill, but done well, it produces results that just cannot be achieved without having a team.  And make no mistake, you already have teams throughout your organization, from the executive level to the front line who produce your product.  The question is:  Are they skilled teams, or are they ineffective groups stuck in the same place with one another?

Results Teams Have Accomplished
þ    After two years of high costs and duplication of effort, a hospital team, in about eight meetings, reduced unnecessary ambulance moves by over 600 a month
      þ    A business team of front line staff, using 
                  direction set by the executive group, developed a
                  new staff orientation process and an internal
                  communication process, and increased key account
                  signups by 73% in less than three months
      þ    Two businesses working under the same roof
                  chartered a team to reduce conflict and set
                  common direction for both groups, and was able to
                  completely eliminate conflict in the organization after six meetings
þ    A billing team, in two meetings, was able to address difficulties in the printed statement and eliminated over 600 inquiry calls a week.

How Could Your Own Business Benefit?
þ   How much time would you recover if you reduced or
        eliminated conflict in your business?
þ   What new areas in the business could you focus on
        if staff began effectively picking up tasks that you
        are currenlty forced to do yourself?
þ   How would a 60% reduction in cycle time help with
        sales and with new revenue?  Teams have been 
        able to produce that result and better - routinely.
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