Church Designer Magazine: When it comes to healthy teams, are you tired of the oft-recycled advice about trust, chemistry and teamwork that doesn’t serve you in the face of a real problem? Here are three of the “real” issues that teams encounter with proven advice on how to deal with them.
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This article strikes me in a multitude of ways. Firstly, this is produced by Church Designers, which seems to be a very particular niche to be giving broad business ideas. I had conflicting feelings on their ideas. I thought the first problem "working during change" was wrong, flat out wrong. Change is something constantly happening. If your company stays at the "desired status quo" that means you are not pushing yourself, growing, developing. I find it almost alarming that managers would want to stifle change in the hopes to reduce friction. If change is going to cause friction, you should of rethought your employees. One idea that I did agree with is the cander needed to address a low performing employee. I agree that if you are going discipline someone for their actions, before you do so you must explain it thoroughly and give them time to change.
First of all, I am extremely impressed with the thorough and original nature of this article. Most blog post with titles like, "3 Common..." say the same thing over and over again. Thankfully, this one did not. They brought up ideas I hadn't really thought of before, and gave me some room to think rather than to just be told, "This is how it is." I really enjoyed the section about change, and believe my colleague above and I had differing opinions. I felt that they brought up good points about the nature of change and how it can derail a team, and I love the way they suggest to fix it. They talk about The Princess Bride, and how Westley builds up an immunity to iocane powder before he drinks it when it really matters. I think this is an important thought, that we should prepare our team for change by introducing small doses of it at first, getting people ready and perhaps "building up an immunity," so that when a big change does come, people are ready to hold on and roll with it. Overall, I really enjoyed this article. I always do enjoy the ones from Church Designer.
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