Teamwork

Some Practical Steps

• Maximize staff involvement.  
• Leaders must find a way to use their talents and skills and recognize each one's contributions.  Everyone must be accountable to something.
• Allow for diversity.  
• Rigid and prohibitive rules can only stifle creativity.  Leaders should consider all ideas and views of team members.
• Be a role model.  
• Leaders can take the role of playing coaches.  They can take the role of playing coaches.  They can show the qualities that they want to see in their team members.
• Empower the team.  
• Leaders can assign projects and tasks to team members to help everyong develop their resourcefulness and creativity.

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ACC:ESS February 2011