How to more than survive as a Most Valuable Team Player (MVTP)of your team.
This article presents the second element necessary to be a Most Valuable Team Player (MVTP) of your team in today’s challenging environment. It asks you to collaborate with other teams.
Collaborate with other teams
Jennifer Fondrevay is my friend and colleague. Jennifer’s book, Now What: A Survivors Guide to Thriving through Mergers and Acquisitions, Cortado Press, Chicago, 2019, https://jenniferjfondrevay.com/now-what-by-jennifer-fondrevay/ supplies a template for being successful in a merger and acquisition environment. As part of her guide, she addresses the importance of collaborating with people outside our own team.
I concur with Jennifer. Most emphatically, I believe that to serve our customers, “”we need to collaborate”” with different teams, with our vendors, and with our community. Specifically, and to paraphrase Jennifer, as MVTPs, we need to:
- Learn the language of the other teams to understand their culture
- Work with people on those other teams who are responsible, accountable, willing to consultant, and are informed, and
- Except that all teams have:
- their own insecurities, issues, shortcomings;
- their own strengths; and
- Accept that the different teams need each other to serve the customer.
*pp. 170-171.
Guidance like this has enhanced Jennifer’s reputation as her clients’ Chief Humanity Officer.
QUESTION
How might you collaborate and become a Most Valuable Team Player to other teams as well?
Chuck Scharenberg is the Founder of More Profit More Freedom, a consultancy that supports the execution of large-scale growth for small businesses. His practice has successfully grown businesses with processes that identify potential roadblocks and mitigation schemes to accelerate realistic execution.
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