How To Unify Your Team Around A Shared Goal

By Brad Schow, COO, HTG Peer Groups

Working in a silo is easy: taking a task, rolling up your sleeves, and getting something done. Check it off the list. That’s great for some things.

What about when what you’re doing is bigger than you? More often than you realize for what you’re doing it is more important that your team comes along for the ride than for you to get it done in a hurry.

Accomplishing things as a team is a much tougher proposition than doing things yourself. Communication, coordination, and shared understanding will take precedent over your desire to just get it done and move on.

It’s not about you.

So how do you accomplish a goal as a team?
I learned through years of watching individually talented people going full speed ahead on their own agenda at their own speed communicating in their own way that there is a key. They would get to the end of what they were doing and everyone around them would begin to thrash out of frustration. “You did what?!?” “Why didn’t you do it this way? I’m working on that, which is now not going to work!”

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