Active support of teamwork is acceptance that high performance is voluntary, and that teamwork provides a structure and an environment in which individuals will feel motivated to offer their best to a project. Paradigm Shifts Active teamwork involves several paradigm shifts. Understanding these paradigm shifts is necessary to understand the recommendations that follow this section. Ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results This goes along with the understanding that high performance is voluntary. Certainly, an extraordinary person can create extraordinary results.
Teamwork offers alternatives.
One is the synergy that occurs when people become motivated to work together. Another is high performance level that accompanies a highly functioning team. And it does happen that effective teamwork can create those extraordinary individuals. Allow people to fail People who are afraid to fail are also afraid to take chances. Optimal solutions to difficult problems almost always require taking chances.