Reduce costs and eliminate waste. Increase sales and improve after sales support. In the future our traditional view of a team will change. A team will no longer be simply a group of people working in the same area, on the same equipment, with the same customers and eating in the same cafeteria. Many of my client teams include people outside of the organization such as suppliers and customers as well as people from other countries, cultures and, of course, other time zones.
Teamwork takes place in a virtual world via electronic communication.
Going forward, a team player will be a more complex person. The effective team player will be adaptive, creative, visionary, supportive, flexible and candid. Your old comfortable niche will evaporate. The high performing organizations of the 21st century will place great value on team players. With change as the only constant and globalization as a given, the successful employees will be the ones who can quickly adjust and work effectively with new and different people.