Team integration is a concept wise companies engage with care and continuity. As one of the primary antidotes to chaos, team integration not only brings harmony, it brings order as well. Order to the resource allocation of both people and processes alike.
The first layer of integration is focused on establishing team unity and cohesiveness. Whether that’s a leadership team, a departmental team, or a project team, moving the members into a place of harmonized continuity is critical to tapping the production potential of each team.
How does this happen? Start with the priorities of vision and communication. Testing the teams understanding of how the team’s goals support the overall vision and direction of the company is critical. This might seem like a simple and unnecessary feature of integration but consider what would happen if the most dominant personality within the team misunderstood the direction of success. One dominant team member could pull the entire team off course wasting valuable time and energy only to end up either missing the mark completely or experiencing a painful and frustrating redirection.
The second most crucial factor in team integration is communication. Establishing, teaching, and confirming a working understanding on healthy and productive team communication is essential. Assuming the team has been established for a reason, it is imperative for every member to participate and that comes down to communication effectiveness. How to find and resolve root level conflict makes all the difference in creating an open environment where team creativity will flourish.
Team success, at any level, within an organization helps to define and attach company results directly to its employees. Collaborative results are powerful and essential in helping leaders spread repeatable results out across the organization.