January 23rd, 2012 | 
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Teamwork truly allows you to do more with less. With true teamwork you need less people and fewer resources to achieve phenomenal outcomes. We’ve proved it over and over in team training exercises. This phenomenon is called “Synergy” – but what is synergy?
Synergy is one of the most beneficial outcomes of teamwork. Yet few people know how to achieve it. Every time we do a team training exercise we’ll speak of how teams can achieve synergy. Then we’ll ask the attendees to define what synergy is. Few people know the answer, no matter if the audience consists of construction workers, health care professionals, engineers or scientists.
Synergy is defined as this: “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” In other words, you can do more with less. A laminated beam is an example of synergy. If 10 boards had a breaking point of 10 pounds each, then if you laminated them together, the breaking point of the 10 boards together would far surpass 100 pounds (the sum of the parts).
A team exercise we invented and use in our team training involves 5 teams of 5 people each who attempt to move a bowling ball, baseball, basketball and ping pong ball across a given distance as fast as they can. There are rigid rules and imposed limitations in the exercise causing the participants to have to figure out how to truly work together in teamwork to accomplish the task.
The first team typically performs the task in approximately 1 to 1.5 minutes. As the teams learn how to more effectively work together in teamwork and learn from each other, the time gets faster. The final team usually performs the task in less than 10 seconds. Proving that with true teamwork and continuous learning a team of people can do the “impossible” (or, what was formerly believed to be impossible).
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Teamwork truly allows you to do more with less. With true teamwork you need less people and fewer resources to achieve phenomenal outcomes. We’ve proved it over and over in team training exercises. This phenomenon is called “Synergy” – but what is synergy?
Synergy is one of the most beneficial outcomes of teamwork. Yet few people know how to achieve it. Every time we do a team training exercise we’ll speak of how teams can achieve synergy. Then we’ll ask the attendees to define what synergy is. Few people know the answer, no matter if the audience consists of construction workers, health care professionals, engineers or scientists.
Synergy is defined as this: “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” In other words, you can do more with less. A laminated beam is an example of synergy. If 10 boards had a breaking point of 10 pounds each, then if you laminated them together, the breaking point of the 10 boards together would far surpass 100 pounds (the sum of the parts).
A team exercise we invented and use in our team training involves 5 teams of 5 people each who attempt to move a bowling ball, baseball, basketball and ping pong ball across a given distance as fast as they can. There are rigid rules and imposed limitations in the exercise causing the participants to have to figure out how to truly work together in teamwork to accomplish the task.
The first team typically performs the task in approximately 1 to 1.5 minutes. As the teams learn how to more effectively work together in teamwork and learn from each other, the time gets faster. The final team usually performs the task in less than 10 seconds. Proving that with true teamwork and continuous learning a team of people can do the “impossible” (or, what was formerly believed to be impossible).
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