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Teamwork Quotes
I hope you enjoy this collection of teamwork quotes from some of the most brilliant minds. Enjoy an inspiring video on lessons of the geese about teamwork. Very practical advice on building an effective team!
Teamwork Quotes Index
About Teamwork
Teamwork: simply stated, it is less me and more we. Teams are not ends in themselves; they are a means by which to achieve other organizational goals.
Teamwork doesn't mean everyone runs to left field when the ball is hit there. A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK". Teamwork is working together -- even when apart. When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes AchievementThe achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
The vehicle of accomplishment is fueled by teamwork. A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Competition is a by-product of productive work, to its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Advice for LeadersA word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Three things I'd say to a team to help hold them together: The goal is not to have a team, but to increase productivity and employee satisfaction. As a team leader, create teams who: Care, Cooperate and are Committed. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Barriers to TeamworkWithout forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Benefits of TeamworkNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. None of us is as smart as all of us.
In union there is strength. Many hands make light work. Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~ Unknown The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes
Healthy Team DynamicsTeams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes A successful team beats with one heart. Shared value is the unifying force of a team. A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind. Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: "We believe in each other." Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes
How to Develop Good TeamsThe key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.
Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Douglas McGregor's list of the unique characteristics of an effective management team: 1. Understanding, mutual agreement, and identification with respect to the primary task ~ Douglas McGregor Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Good TEAMWORK is based on: Clear Goals & Priorities - which lead to: Clear Roles & Responsibilities - which lead to: Clear Procedures & Processes - which lead to: Good Interpersonal Relationships
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
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HumorousTeamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Importance of Differing ViewpointsConflict is inevitable in a team ... in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.
Most potential teams can become real teams, but not without taking risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence, and hard work. For example, a common team purpose, set of performance goals, and approach rarely arise without conflict. Indeed, quite the contrary -- the most successful teams recognize their members' conflicting views and experiences as a source of strength. Similarly, mutual accountability requires trust and interdependence, which usually do not grow without risk taking. And, finally, most potential teams include members who must develop the skills needed by the team after they have joined the team itself. This, too, implies risks and hard work for everyone on the team.
Whenever two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Importance of TeamworkWhether it is two people, a department, or an organization, teams are the means by which great things get done. Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.
Men have never been individually self-sufficient. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
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Individual vs. Team EffortNo one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Individuals score points, but teams win games.
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Group desire is different than individual desire. With individual desire, it's up to you to feed the fire. With group desire, you get all kinds of people rolling logs on from every direction.
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. A single leaf working alone provides no shade. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes
Insightful
A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.
Just because we are all equal does not mean we are all the same. The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team.
A championship team is a team of champions. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.
Either we're pulling together or we're pulling apart. Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad - not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great team.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
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Interdependence of the TeamRemember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking."
The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. Ants are very good citizens, they put the group interest first. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes
JadedSkeptics on the new "team" will say: Teamwork = another management fad that attempts to get employees to do more work without paying them for it Team Leader = the boss Team Members = the people who carry out the boss's orders Employee Involvment/Empowerment = a technique that creates the illusion that management really cares about what I think Participative Management = an opportunity to agree with what management has already decided Be prepared for the SKEPTICS!!
We trained hard. But it seems that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn, later in life, that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Necessity of TeamworkWe must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes ProfoundAlways treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
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Sports and TeamworkMichael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes SynergySynergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Whenever ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Synergy -- the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
Example of Synergy: Blue circle overlapping with Yellow circle. The Green represents synergy. (Something new, but made up of the old)
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Team PlayerTeamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Organization teams thrive on four types of team players: Contributors, Collaborators, Communicators, Challengers. To be a Most Valuable Player (MVP) on a team, you must have a Mission, a Vision, and a Passion. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Teamwork and Success
A big part of succeeding is teaming. That's why I establish filters for who I work with. That's not arrogance. It's confidence. The path to greatness is along with others.
Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.
Working together works.
Coming together, sharing together, working together, succeeding together. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes
Teamwork Lessons of the GeeseWatch this inspirational video about the Lessons of the Geese on Teamwork.
Lessons of the Geese 1. As each goose flaps its wings, it creates a "uplift" for the birds following. By flying in a "V" formation the whole flock adds 71% more flying range than if each bird flew alone. LESSON: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another. 2. Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the birds immediately in front. LESSON: If we have as much sense as a goose, we will join formation with those who are headed where we want to go. 3. When a lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into formation and another goose flies at the point position. LESSON: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership - with people, as with geese interdependent with one another. 4. The geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. LESSON: We need to make sure our honking from behind is encouraging - not something less helpful. 5. When a goose get sick, wounded or shot, two geese drop out of formation and follow their fellow member, to help and provide protection. They stay with this member of the flock until he or she either is able to fly again or dies. Then they launch out on their own, with another formation, or to catch up with their own flock. LESSON: If we have as much sense as the geese, we'll stand by one another like they do.
Return to Index of Teamwork Quotes Unhealthy Team DynamicsMost teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
Members of groups that do not meet regularly usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group. Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid -- and that stops teamwork.
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