Six Steps to Building a Great Team

"Adapted from The 17 Indisputable Laws of Team Work" By John C. Maxwell
　
Are you desirous of building a formidable team where members don't jockey for positions but work as a united force? If yes! Then, the following steps should interest you:　
　
1. Look Up at the Big Picture
　Everything starts with the vision. It is the responsibility of leaders to effectively communicate the vision and make their teams see the big picture. Great leaders in history from Winston Churchill to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used effective communication to galvanize their people to success. People get more committed when they see what they are working toward.
　
2. Size Up the Situation
　Seeing the big picture makes our vision clearer and it reveals how far we really are from achieving it. A lone ranger gets intimidated when he sees the gulf between what is and what could be. But a team builder gets motivated, stays focused and works towards setting up a dream team that sees the big picture.
　
3. Line Up Needed Resources
　A team builder should be able to quantify the resources needed to achieve success. In the words of John Maxwell, "the better resourced the team is, the fewer distractions the players will have as they try to achieve their goal".
　
4. Call Up the Right Players
　The key to raising a successful team lies in the quality of players at your disposal. Your distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership will take you nowhere if you have the wrong players in your team.
　
5. Give Up Personal Agendas
We must focus on building an egalitarian team where the goal is more important than the role. As Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's aptly put it "no one of us is more important than the rest of us".
　
6. Step Up to a Higher Level
　We achieve something greater than ourselves when we put away our personal agendas, focus and see our team as a boundless entity.

To build a great team, we must effectively communicate the big picture to our teams as leaders; and genuinely align ourselves to our teams' goal as members.

Regards
Timawus I.