Fresh air

How fresh is the air in your team?

Are there blue skies and a fresh breeze blowing? Or is the weather bad in your team and storms are brewing? Healthy air, fresh air is nice. With dark, spooky skies, there may be too much air movement. That's where storms are coming. So many kinds of skies, so many kinds of teams.
Is there spirit in the team, do you believe in your own abilities? Are you able to motivate each other intrinsically? Or does it succumb to conflicts and contradictions?
Contributing to better cooperation is like fresh air. The more of it you have, the nicer it is.

A cooperative team

A well-cooperating team can take a beating and knows how to clear the air before communication falters. Such a team braves a storm and, if necessary, cycles powerfully forward against the wind. You feel it immediately: even if it becomes a crisis, this team will emerge victorious.
A team that (due to circumstances) only gets headwinds and does not make any progress stagnates. Such a team learns little and communication is locked. It is scary. The team experiences too much stress and is more about struggling than performing. It is not a team, it is every man for himself.

Corona - an unprecedented storm

The corona crisis is such a headwind. At the time of writing, nobody knows how this storm will behave, every café, all restaurants are closed. Yet you see restaurateurs carpeting counters in front of their doors to deliver takeaway meals, flowers are being donated to care homes, thus promoting the purchase of a bunch of flowers in the supermarket in a positive way.

Pointers from an impasse

The scale of cooperation shows struggling teams the way out of gridlock. The route runs from struggling to avoidance to cooperation. It sounds crazy, but especially recognising the in-between phase - avoiding - is crucial for progress. Stand still for a moment. What is going on here, what are the problems and how can we translate them into (future) opportunities?

Step by step

With the Scale of Cooperation, Team4Teams delivers fresh air. To teams performing well and wanting to get to know each other even better and to a team in the middle of a storm.
The window opens, people breathe a sigh of relief. Contradictions are voiced, the style of communication is stripped of sharp edges. Criticism turns into feedback. Nobody dives anymore. People still make mistakes, but no longer deny them. They address mistakes step by step. Just take a deep breath, there is fresh air in this team again.