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Create the right environment for your team

Create the right environment for your team

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Create the right environment for your team

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- Before a team can work well together, even if it's got the perfect mix of people, it needs to have the right physical environment where we can truly feel like a team. Are there communal areas and times when people are allowed or even encouraged to go there? Do the communal areas make people feel valued by providing free tea and coffee, maybe even fruit or snacks? Are there enough meetings, but not too many, and are they well run? Are there any fun events which make people talk to and really get to know each other? Setting up this environment stuff is really the boss' job, but any team member can suggest activities that will make this happen; things like games, competitions, short trips, celebrations of any kind, from birthdays and births of colleagues' babies to big orders received and projects being completed. One place I visited recently has a thought of the day written up on a whiteboard, and anyone who has a good one can write it up there. I told them I thought it was a great…

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