Teambuilding

My executive clients each want to lead great teams and be remembered as a Vince Lombardi or Phil Jackson. They want to be winners with great and grateful followers and admirers. And it is natural for them to seek assistance in this very important aspect of their executive role, that interestingly enough cannot be delegated. Teambuilding is an arena that almost required a 3^rd party.

My colleagues report the same flaw in the request they receive. They seek the help without giving thought to the pre-requisite question; what game am I playing? If I am in the track and field business, my team and the actions to make it great are very different than if I am in the basketball or baseball or football business. A great tennis team is led and managed somewhat differently than a great golf team and extremely differently than a great soccer team or rugby team. And yet the assumption is that teambuilding is teambuilding.