Posted June 29, 2009

On workplace teamwork and respect.

“No team can survive if its members don’t value and protect a positive, respectful workplace environment.”

        

Teamwork is a precious, invisible, almost magical force in the workplace. Good teamwork yields results beyond that which can be achieved by a similar group of individuals. We have seen the results of teamwork time and time again, and the results typically exceed those we were able to achieve in the years before we discovered teamwork. 

        

In any organization courtesy and respect is the oil that lubricates the contact between the individuals that work together, like meshing gears. Where workers do not treat each other with respect, problems arise, feelings will be hurt, resentments fester, and the work of the entire team suffers the consequences. 

        

It is the responsibility of the boss, supervisor or owner to provide an environment that allows and encourages such respect in his colleagues and associates. That would be me. Over the past 25 years I hope that I have gotten better at this aspect of my role as captain of the ship, and Human Resources manager, and chief cook and bottle washer. But there is always need for improvement in all things. 

        

And it is the responsibility of the team members to bring to light such concerns as they become concerns, and not allow them to evolve into problems. Big kudos to those team members that can do just that. It takes courage and proactive attitude to bring up to boss, supervisor, owner or other the subject of problems that, all things being equal, they would rather not hear about.

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