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Team Spark: Cultivate a Collective Instinct
Collective effort can result in outcomes that are impossible when attempted as an individual. When working collectively with people from diverse backgrounds, we have an even greater pool of resources and expertise with which to successfully navigate times of great challenge.
Team Spark: Honor Unique Contributions
The individual brilliance of an employee is not always realized until a group comes together to collaborate. Working with other employees on diverse teams helps each team member to tap into their creativity, often producing ground breaking products and services that could only be discovered through collaboration.
Team Spark: Invest Time to Build Trust
When working on diverse teams, developing trust may take longer due to background differences and different views on what trust means and how it is earned. Building confidence helps to resolve communication issues that may impede team progress. A trusting team will be able to function as a cohesive unit when critical decisions have to be made.
Team Spark: Leverage Broad Expertise
Like building a skyscraper, collaboration on large projects works best when you bring together a team with diverse areas of expertise. On-going and continuous collaboration among disciplines helps to ensure that your project achieves all of its goals when it is completed.
Team Spark: Proverb - Be Creative
Spark team communication around supporting team members when they choose to set their own course in how they complete work.
Team Spark: Proverb - Be Patient
Spark team communication around being patient and giving a project time to move forward - allowing for greater creativity or innovation.
Team Spark: Proverb - Deal with Little Issues
Spark team communication about the protocols that can help us catch small problems early on (before they grow into BIG issues).
Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Insult Someone Who Can Take Care of You
Spark team communication about how to better understand each other so that we don’t offend each other.
Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Waste Your Efforts
Spark team communication around project or product completion.
Team Spark: Proverb - Each Person Is Unique
Spark team communication around how we can use our unique skills and abilities more effectively as individuals, or as a team.
Team Spark: Proverb - Everyone Makes Mistakes
Spark team communication around how to handle mistakes when they are made.
Team Spark: Proverb - Giving Up Too Easily
Spark team communication around tips for keeping the team focused and on task when facing challenges.
Team Spark: Proverb - If You Don't Communicate, You'll Get Burned
Spark team communication on what we can do to better communicate with people inside and outside of the team.
Team Spark: Proverb - People Judge Things from Their Experience Not the Wider World
Spark team communication on how looking at something from just one perspective can impact the team.
Team Spark: Proverb - People Will Listen More If You Are Kind When Delivering the Message
Spark team communication on how kindness can help us achieve our desired end result on both projects and personal pursuits.
Team Spark: Proverb - Planning Needs to Be Paired with Action
Spark team communication on we can empower the key action oriented team members to help us know when to move forward.
Team Spark: Proverb - Take Responsibility For The Results
Spark team communication understanding the need to reevaluate how people are given responsibility.
Team Spark: Proverb - Title But No Authority
Spark team communication on authority and how it can also be seen as influence.
Team Spark: Proverb - When You Fight Amongst Yourselves, Others Win
Spark team communication on getting caught up among ourselves so much that we lose focus on the big picture.
Team Spark: Proverb - Work With What You Have
Spark team communication on being creative and getting the job done with limited resources.