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Leaders or TEAM players.

 

We have all heard the inaccurate say that there is no I in TEAM. I say it's inaccurate because TEAM always starts with an I.

 

Ways that I effects a TEAM

• Do I join a Team or go it alone? Effects the decision to get started.
• What can I do for the TEAM? Effects the production and co-operation.
• What can I get out of the team? Often this thinking begins it's fall.
• What can I do without the Team? Folks this almost always kills it.

 

In our newest project I was guilty of brainstorming our new direction and as CEO I jumped into production before the other partners were all 100% on board with the move and knew their roles and what would be expected. As CEO my job is to lead our direction and the plan is solid but I rushed into production and started going it alone without advising key people of where they stood in the mission.

 

Needles to say half my 4^th of July was spent correcting my foolish moves.

 

Change can be tough, especially when all members are expected to be able to convey a unified message and don't know what that message is. Development is slowed if the people who work on scrips and design don't have a clear path, set of directives and a time line. It further complicates when you have a trainee caught in the middle of a Mad Man at the helm moving full speed and mad partners not knowing when the mad man is headed or why, how it works, or more then what the final product is.

 

That's been a huge learning curve for me.

 

I built a very successful online business teaching teamwork but like most of our Guru's forgot the team at home. I was injured and had nobody who could step in and be me and in the course of 2 months of physical therapy and my business collapsed and my reputation for communication, trust, and support almost ruined.

 

Since that day I have come together with a great team. I started out as a humble worker, became a partner, and worked hard. When Dave decided he needed to take time off and come back in a reduced role I was asked to step up and lead our company as it's second ever CEO. Dave came back to a totally different business, I move fast and take no prisoners but the time zones played a toll.

 

See Dave coming back has often been left out of the loop until changes have already begun, because one partner lives in the same house and shares the same office space, another vital team member is on our time zone in Canada. Poor Dave in Australia comes online around 5PM-6PM my time, after a day of moving and shaking is done and is sometimes the least in the know despite being one of the most vital parts of the team.

 

Yesterday I wrote up a full battle plan complete with assignments and a rough timeline and even a plan for initial marketing. I will now make it a daily practice to take notes and communicate because the other I in TEAM is. How can I fail the TEAM.

 

Andy Anderson

CEO Velocity Marketer

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