The Complete Works of Wolf Road

Chapter 30 Wolf Unity (2)
The leader of a team must have high morale and fighting passion, and be confident of winning.The most important thing is to have a tenacious and tenacious spirit, and use this spirit to infect every member of the team. This is the fundamental to ensure the survival and victory of the team.If a person is full of doubts about the work he is doing, then he will not devote himself to the work, cannot run through it with tenacious will and tenacious spirit, and retreat immediately when encountering difficulties, so that the work he has done will be in vain. give up halfway.Especially the leader of a team, if he loses confidence and the courage to continue fighting in the face of difficulties and setbacks, then the only thing waiting for the team is death.

The tenacity and tenacity of a leader is like a banner.With the flag leading in front, team members will have a clear fighting direction and move forward bravely.If there is no flag to guide, the team will be like a loose sand, with no direction, no cohesion, and it will be easily defeated by the opponent.

With tenacity and tenacity, it does not mean success. Success requires opportunities.But successful people must have tenacity and indomitable spirit.David Howard Murdoch, the largest shareholder and company president of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, had only received a high school education because of his poor family when he was a child.For him, capital, knowledge, family background, and opportunity are not the decisive factors for success.Murdoch once used two words to summarize the secret of his success, namely: tenacity and tenacity.A friend who co-runs a real estate company with Murdoch said: "David's greatest wealth is his tenacious and tenacious spirit." To survive, one must be aggressive; to succeed, one must be tenacious.It is by virtue of this unyielding perseverance to strive for self-improvement and challenge setbacks and difficulties that Murdoch has achieved success in his career.

For a team, tenacity and tenacity are the sharpest weapons.This spirit is like a spear, with the joint efforts of all team members, it can pierce all the thick shields in the world.We don't need to put too many trademarks for tenacity and tenacity, because its role exists objectively.The rise of a company and the success of a team in the world cannot be separated from tenacious and tenacious spirit.

5 Build a high-performing team

In nature, wolves are the animals with the most team spirit. Whether it is tropical or frigid, wolves can be seen everywhere.According to research, wolves generally lead a team life.

Within each family, under the unified command of the head wolf, its members perform their duties and have a clear division of labor. Everyone plays their respective strengths, unites and cooperates, and cooperates tacitly to achieve success together.The teamwork and efficient team operation methods of the wolves are really worthy of human reflection and reference!

Only a high-performance team is a team that can fight well and win without losing.

The fundamental characteristics of high-performance teams are mainly reflected in three aspects:

In terms of internal structure, the internal structural characteristics of high-performance teams include a common vision or vision, common goals and effective strategies, high-quality members, efficient communication, effective leadership, and the rights and obligations to assume important responsibilities.

In terms of the external environment, the characteristics of the external environment of a high-performance team can be summarized as the unity of responsibility and power, the unity of incentive and restraint, the unity of guidance and support, and the harmonious relationship with the outside world.

In terms of culture, the cultural characteristics of high-performance teams mainly include strong team spirit, full of vitality and enthusiasm, and team members keep making progress.

Compared with ordinary teams, high-performance teams differ in the following eight aspects:
(1) The goal is clear.

Successful leaders tend to advocate results-oriented teamwork, the goal is to achieve extraordinary achievements.They are always clear about their goals and the goals of the group, and they understand the importance of involving each partner in the process of delineating goals and visions.

The leader of a high-performance team will often establish team goals with his members, and try his best to make each member clearly understand and agree with the team goals, and point out a clear direction to team members.When the team's goals and vision are not determined by the team leader alone, but are jointly negotiated by team members, team members have a sense of "ownership" and believe from the bottom of their hearts that "this is our goal and vision."

(2) solidarity and mutual assistance.

In high-performance teams, you can often see team members and team leaders freely discussing issues and asking: "I am currently having this difficulty, can you help me?" When everyone disagrees, or even has opposing positions At any time, they are willing to open their minds, calmly seek solutions to problems, seek common ground while reserving differences, and take harmonious and consistent actions.

(3) Mutual recognition.

In high-performance teams, team members can feel "I feel appreciated and supported by others."We can often hear words like "I think you can do it", "You are the best", "You are the best", "Our team cannot live without you".These words of praise and approval are undoubtedly the boosters needed by the team members, improving their self-esteem and self-confidence, and driving them to work together to achieve the team's goals.

(4) Speak freely.

A high-performance team will provide a two-way communication stage for team members, and everyone can express their views, feelings, and even emotions freely, openly, unrestrainedly, and honestly.Even if an idea sounds outrageous, others don't turn a blind eye, because they know that many great ideas are almost ridiculed when they are first proposed.

Brainstorming must rely on everyone maintaining a sincere two-way communication, only in this way can a team be perfected day by day.Team members on high-performing teams feel like they are "being themselves" and can speak freely without any hesitation.

(5) Listen to each other.

A team leader said: "I try to create an atmosphere where team members respect each other and listen to other partners' opinions. In my team, I have a group of open-minded partners who really want to know what other partners think. They show It’s so exciting to have a listening presence and skill that no other team can match!”

(6) Strong participation.

There are countless organizations where "participatory management" is practiced, and leaders believe that this approach can satisfy. The human psychology of "participating and being respected".Members of high-performance teams always exude an irresistible enthusiasm for participation. They are quite proactive and don't miss any opportunity to participate.

Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, said: "An effective manager will involve team members in the conception stage of the plan. I think it is important to involve team members in decisions that directly affect them So, I'm always willing to take the risk of losing time." If you want your team members to all support you, you have to get them involved, the earlier the members involved will always support the things they participate in, when the team aggregates The power to stand up is absolutely unimaginable.

(7) Everyone is responsible.

Every member of a high-performance team has a clear understanding of what his role is, what impact his individual actions will have on the achievement of the team's goals, what to do and what not to do, and each other. members' demands on themselves.

When a high-performance team divides labor, it is easy to establish mutual expectations and dependence. Everyone feels that they are closely related to each other, and they share life and death. The success or failure of the team is very important. .

(8) Desperate.

Genuine interdependence and support are the foundation of teamwork.Likert has spent several years researching and found that participatory organizations have a characteristic—management trusts team members, and team members trust managers. Almost all winning organizations focus on how to cultivate parallel trust between superiors and subordinates. sense in order to keep the morale of the organization strong.

The goal of team management is to create a high-performance team.From the perspective of high-performance team building, building a high-performance team is inseparable from high-quality leadership. Only with high-quality leadership can we cultivate high-quality team members and jointly create good results and high efficiency.

(1) High-quality leadership.

High-quality leaders need to have the following characteristics:

Team leaders should be particularly prominent in knowledge, intelligence, quality, ability, especially in attitude and awareness, put the interests of the team first, lead by example, and lead by example.

In terms of leadership style, both team performance and interpersonal relationship are emphasized, and organic dynamic coordination can be achieved between the realization of team goals and the satisfaction of individual needs of members.Fully trust the team members, be a good coach, and actively promote the rapid growth of the team members.

The leader is willing to authorize, fully mobilizes the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the team members, can spread vitality and enthusiasm to the entire team, and actively encourages team members to participate in discussions and make joint decisions in team meetings. Most members have a greater degree of freedom .

(2) High-quality players.

For a team, the quality of the members cannot be overemphasized, because the team size is generally small.If a team of 5 people has 2 low-quality players, then it will be difficult for the team to work smoothly.

High quality team members are characterized by:

Team members have different professional knowledge, skills and experience, and complement each other in character and temperament.

Team members represent the interests and positions of different units, are familiar with different fields, and come from different backgrounds.

Team members not only have strong professional and technical capabilities, but also have good interpersonal skills.Working in this atmosphere, members not only compete with each other, motivate each other, promote each other, but also cooperate, help and learn from each other.

In addition to having rich knowledge, high intelligence, good quality, and strong ability, team members also need to have a very positive working attitude, that is, selfless, serious and responsible, meticulous, and progressive working attitude .

To effectively cultivate and enhance team spirit, as a team leader, you must first establish the concept of "followers first".As a team leader, you should always put your team members above everything else.Only in this way, will you be willing to take actions to care for them, cherish them, support them, give them strength, and motivate them to do everything well.When the "followers" are given the first priority, the effect will be quite astonishing. When they are inspired and inspired by the team, their potential and love hidden deep in their hearts will burst out sharply, and they Anything you do will be quite outstanding and perfect.

Hal Rosebluth (Hal Rosebluth) and Diane Peter (Diane Peter) can be said to be successful models of team performance. In their joint book "Customer Second", they specifically elaborated on the principle of "followers first" Experience: "To serve customers well, we must first put employees first. When we put employees first, they will put customers first. Only when employees understand how they feel valued by others, they Only then can we sincerely share this feeling with others.”

Helping team members understand the concept and importance of building a team is another shortcut to developing team spirit as soon as possible.Starting from pre-employment education, new team members should be instilled with the correct concept of efficient teams and let them learn the relevant behaviors of the team.

In the subsequent regular and irregular on-the-job training, it is still necessary to continuously strengthen the team members in the courses of interpersonal relationship, leadership, communication and management.Through planned training, these well-trained members are more confident to dedicate their talents fully, and spontaneously cooperate with other members to achieve success together.

Cultivating the team tacit understanding of the overall collocation of team members is the only way to enhance team spirit.As a team leader, it is true that every team member should have the space for self-expression, but more importantly, it is necessary to break away from individual heroism.Do a good job in the overall collocation of the team, a coordinated team tacit understanding, and strive to make team members understand each other the importance of learning from each other.If this can be done, the team will be able to condense team wisdom that is higher than individual strength, and can create incredible team performance and team performance at any time.

Only cooperation can produce tremendous power. It is an important responsibility of the team leader to often teach and instill the concept of interdependence, dependence and support in team members to achieve their goals.When awakening the concept of team members as a whole, the focus must be on their concerted actions and the feeling of sharing weal and woe.

6 Cultivate the spirit of cooperation of solidarity and mutual assistance
The team strength of the wolf clan is so strong, in the final analysis, it is the reason for the cooperation of wolves.Even the most ferocious lions dare not provoke wolves on the grassland, which shows the strength of the wolf pack team. "Wolf in embarrassment" is also the cooperation between wolf and embarrassment, and it is also a kind of team spirit.

A person must have the ability to deal with people.This ability is very, very important.Why learn to deal with people?
We will know its importance when we look at how wolves survive.

People have to learn to "live in a team" like wolves.Due to the group nature of wolves, it is rare for a wolf to plunder food alone, so even a tiger will back away when seeing a pack of wolves. This is the strength of the group.If a person wants to make a difference in society, he must realize the importance of the power of the group and learn how to use the power of the group. In this way, the wolf can compete with the king of the mountain-the tiger.

When the wolf king in the wolf pack gets old, the younger wolves will pull him down from the position of the head wolf, so as to keep the whole wolf pack strong.The same is true for people. If you want to achieve great things, you must be able to unite others to do things together and eliminate your own shortcomings.

The spirit of unity and cooperation is the foundation of success in all undertakings.Webster, an American social activist, once said a famous saying: "People together can do things that no one can do alone; wisdom, hands, and strength combined are almost omnipotent."

We work in an enterprise or company, and everyone's work is relatively independent and related to the overall situation.Therefore, people often say: "Based on one's own job, focus on the overall situation."Just like playing chess, winning or losing is tied to each piece, "one careless move, and the whole game is lost."If the entire battle is lost, no matter which chess piece is capable, what is the point?
British physicist Rutherford said with deep understanding: "Scientists do not rely on individual thoughts, but synthesize the wisdom of thousands of people. All people think about a problem, and each does part of its work, adding Into the great building of knowledge that is being built." Our work, although we each do "partial work", cannot be without the overall concept.The spirit of collaboration is a symbol of the overall concept.

Our spirit of cooperation must be like wolves.Wolves, a group of people.The attack target is set, and the wolves attack it.Before the head wolf gives the order, the wolves are in their respective positions, they are quiet when they want to move, they stop when they want to act, and they each perform their duties.When the head wolf raises his head, the main attacker will move forward bravely;

Among the many factors in the successful hunting process of wolves, strict and orderly collective organization and efficient teamwork are the most obvious and important factors.This characteristic makes them always invincible when hunting their prey.Lone wolves are not powerful, but when wolves appear in groups before attacking the target, they show strong attack power.In the increasingly fierce competition among enterprises, this phenomenon of wolves is being paid more and more attention by more and more people.In the corporate world, people are being attracted by a kind of corporate management and operation mode called "wolf culture".

Moving towards a common general direction, mutual convenience, mutual help, and carrying forward the spirit of cooperation are undoubtedly the embodiment of noble morals.It doesn't mean that you can be immoral and give up the spirit of collaboration just by talking about competition. This is actually a misunderstanding of competition.

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