Once a workplace is generated in which all team members feel comfortable, it will be essential to achieve spaces in which ideas can be shared and recognize achievements.
Escribe Sandra Felsenstein
We usually say that the team is more than the sum of the parts. And why is that? Because when we manage to create synergy among people, the result is a group of individuals who work for the same goal, leveraging efforts and generating not only shared learning but also good common practices.
The value of teamwork has been becoming increasingly important in recent years, a situation that drives academic efforts and studies aimed at understanding how to make the most of the benefits of this work modality.
Globalization, which generates constant changes in world trends, added to increasingly fast and sophisticated communications require that companies and entrepreneurs are forced to be more efficient. As? Betting on optimizing the quality of products and/or services; focusing on customer service and continuous evaluation of internal processes to reduce costs, etc.
Undoubtedly, in this sense, it will be essential to begin to include technological advances in all our activities to improve processes and their results. But not less important will be to maintain the focus on human resources, which must always comply with some central premises: to be suitable and be willing to implement both new technologies, and the changes that they bring rigged.
It should be noted here that we should always keep in mind: "If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will spoil it, while if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will improve or discard it, depending on generating another superior." Personally, I consider that the good environment in the labor group represents a very important portion of the success of a company.
Not overlooking
One of the keys to achieve innovative companies is to have heterogeneous work teams. For them it is necessary to pay special attention to the members that compose them. It must be taken into account that a group is made up of individuals with different interests, values, ideas and ways of communicating and also with differentiated rhythms. In other times, these differences could be perceived as possible generators of personal wear, demotivation, low performance or high dropout, among others. Currently, it is interpreted precisely.
That is, these differences must be used in pursuit of successful performance, since they are the ones that motivate the generation of new ideas and proposals. In other words, they promote creativity. Forming interdisciplinary teams Forming interdisciplinary teams is the main raw material to innovate.
Each of us unfailingly brings preconceptions and if we do not exchange ideas and opinions with people of different training and background, we will always arrive at the same responses, conclusions and solutions.
Generate adequate areas
Those responsible for the teams must encourage exchange, creating spaces for this practice, for example, through “suggestion channels” or interactive meetings, in which everyone can present creative and innovative ideas. In Dinkka, we have guidelines of meeting, in which we propose themes or problems to the table and dedicate ourselves to make rain of ideas based on these issues. It is key that these spaces are “scheduled”, have a delimited time, and that from them, conclusions that derive in concrete actions are drawn. In the course of the meetings there must be “divergent” creation moments, during which everyone must contribute ideas without filters, (Brainstorming), and then concentrate on the most viable and most likely to specify ideas.
In veterinarians
Every work team, either within a veterinary company as in any type of organization, requires that the objectives be very clear and known in depth by all members, for which excellent internal communication is indispensable. The clarity and fluidity in the communication of the objectives to be met, the strategies to be used, the advances and achievements that are obtained, result from immense value to sustain the motivation of the equipment.
Likewise, and also in order to maintain a sustained enthusiasm of its members, it is important to recognize performance and the achievements that are obtained, both individually and from the group in their joint action.
This allows us, to a greater or lesser extent from the old control processes "for tasks" to move on to the control "by objectives", which generates empowerment of the collaborators towards the company or organization, achieving greater commitment and consequently better results.
Tendencies
At present, it tends not to talk about “employee” but the term of “collaborator” is used. To achieve more innovative companies, greater satisfaction of collaborators and as a consequence better results, it seeks to obtain empowerment in employees. In fact, workers do not value remuneration in money exclusively, but give enormous importance to the satisfaction of belonging to a work team within which to be able to perform in a free and flexible way, with a clear mission, in an area that allows to express themselves and a clear perspective of the future within the organization.
In short, and although teamwork requires clearly in mind that guides its operation, it is also of the utmost importance that members individually have their space to express their personal ideas and suggestions and make their contributions to the general project.
This is the paradigm shift of the "traditional boss" to the "current leader." In this way a committed and permanently motivated team will be maintained.
These concepts are those that occupy a large part of the current agenda of those responsible for conducting companies.
