What Is Teaming

Teams are a stable body of people working for a common purpose, but teaming is the collaboration of people brought together to achieve a specific usually singular purpose such as surgeons, nurses, anesthetists, and after-care workers coming together to remedy the ails of a patient and teaming often comes about in fast-paced circumstances. 

There are seven key attributes required of teamers: communication skills, emotional intelligence, keen focus, curiosity, passion, creativity, and empathy and just like teams, teamers require strong leadership to exploit their attributes.

Seven Key Attributes of Teamers:

1. Teamers must have strong communication skills to give, receive, and effectively process information with fellow collaborators who are across disciplines, personality types, ages, cultures, and value systems. 

2. Emotional Intelligence is essential in this practice because it strengthens communication, promotes tolerance, encourages innovation, and stimulates growth.  3. Teamers need a keen focus so they can quickly adjust to shifting objectives and changing collaborations. 

4. Curiosity is essential to the problem-solving demand of teaming.  It requires open-mindedness, a growth mindset, and a willingness to explore new possibilities. 

5. Passion drives learning and a desire for mastery.  It fosters agile social bonding and boosts focus, motivation, and curiosity.  It also promotes wellbeing. 

6. Creativity encourages big picture thinking and reveals new opportunities for problem solving and performance betterment.  It can bring clarity to a circumstance and relieve tensions and build social bonds. 

7. Empathy enables us to understand the emotional drivers of our collaborators, it broadens our minds and perspectives and enables us to respond intentionally to situations.

All teaming collaborations require strong leadership to model the behaviour expected throughout the teaming process and to ensure the assignment stays on track and delivers the anticipated outcomes in the time frame required.   “Teaming is a verb. it is a dynamic activity, not a bounded, static entity.” – Amy C. Edmondson.

Teaming is becoming more commonplace as businesses explore innovative more efficient and effective ways of operating.  I invite you to explore how teaming can work for you so reach out to us today for a chat.