The Skinny on improving Teamwork - Five Lessons for every company

Who would you be if you were not in office, and if they were not in control? You have the confidence we want to risk looking foolish? Are you willing to "put out" in a big way and trust your teammates to catch if you fall?

What would happen if you were to find a way to agree with the present moment? Do you have the courage to allow the flow and stop resisting "what is?" Are you willing to accept or even agree with others even when they do not fully understand their point of view?

Depending on your role in your company, owner, president, employee, entrepreneur, you have a standard "answer seminar." If you are on the top step of the scale will say something like "I've been to Covey's Seven Habits Training." If you are on the middle step you will say something like "I teach this stuff and have developed the material." Or, if you're on the step you'll say you passed the "ropes course" at the company retreat.

Although these classes and methods are useful if you want to know the skinny on these answers to these questions, take the course of eight weeks at the Skinny Improv. The Skinny Improv is a comedy troop in Springfield, Missouri. The band plays every Friday and Saturday evenings, and offers lessons to those who want to learn the same skills used in business or in life. If you have an improvement of the troops in your area is worth the personal investment. You can learn a lot about team building and even more about you. Here are some of the lessons I learned after six weeks of training to invest in me.

Lesson One: It's not you.

Even if a team is never really about you. And 'everyone else seems to do good. When you do your part and your intention is to be there for the rest of the team, then everyone is a star. It's not your job to get the limelight, to have the last word or deliver the funniest line. Your job is to make everyone else look good. When you focus on yourself, you do so at the expense of the team. In the world of business is skilled in magic lesson will work miracles for the team and for customer service.

Lesson Two: Go with the flow.

In Improv, you never know what the other person will do, so it's easy to be thrown off guard. When you are caught by surprise, the natural response is to resist, instead of seeking an agreement. When you're used to being under control is difficult to let go. If you are in a position of power you are used to plan and facilitate, but they forget what it means to participate. It 'easy to ask others to step up, but when you go with the flow has become a participant instead of the controller. Very often in business we resist and stress over the current situation instead of looking for opportunities to go with the flow.

Lesson number three: Trust is essential.

In order to have a great team you must believe that team members are there for you. They save you when you stumble, catch you when you fall. After all, they also believe in the philosophy that is not on them, but it comes to making you look good. What goes around comes around. The end result is a great customer experience and the audience in Improv is the customer. In business, the end result is to satisfy customers so they can keep. For this purpose, ensuring that the team supports one another so that they can provide the final result.

Lesson Four: Judgment successful blocks.

It 's impossible to be creative in the midst of criticism. It does not matter if the criticism is directed towards someone else or yourself, judgment blocks the flow of energy. It takes discipline and practice to learn to suspend the Gremlins in your head telling you how stupid you look and it takes a conscious positive to give others the same courtesy.

Lesson Five: Growth takes courage.

In order to learn something new we must be willing to leave our comfort zone for a moment and take the courage to take risks. If you believe that all members of the team has your interests at heart, and will not be judged by your ability to Courage is maximized. You can only take risks when you have confidence when you learn to go with the flow, let go of judgment, and when you have been on the giving and receiving end of philosophy "is not about you." ......