Team Building
Businesses must embrace change in order to endure.
Within most businesses, one will find leaders, followers, innovators, implementers, and support staff-together, they constitute the Team, with a capital T. Your practice is made up of yourself and your Team, which can include everyone in your business, from the boss to the intern. On a scheduled basis, your team can (and, perhaps, should) undertake a self-assessment process in order to gauge its own effectiveness and, as a result, improve performance. As a leader, you must clarify your practice's goals and develop a sense of "co-ownership" among the team-even if members of your team may not be legal owners of your practice. To fulfill this objective, you should familiarize yourself with an understanding of the "chi" of team building. Before you can assess your team (and yourself)-as well as look ahead to planning ways to improve performance and results-you should review a few basic tenets of envisioning, building, and maintaining the Team.