There are two things from my army career that still give me goosebumps to think about. The sight of a well-trained Infantry squad maneuvering on an objective in the woods and the sound of the machine gun squad “talking the guns”.
My leaders spent countless hours honing these skills, working their teams until they could do it in their sleep (pretty sure I was half-asleep for a few!). This allowed the teams to learn how to work with each other, to communicate, to understand strengths and weaknesses of those around them and to gain trust that your Ranger Buddy was going to do what he was supposed to.
When the Platoon received a new mission, I would give that mission to one of my squads, to take advantage of that training and the teamwork they had developed. I had learned that regardless of the problem at hand, a good team will be able to solve it faster than a specialized group of people I threw together.
Im always amazed at how many organizations still move people to work instead of moving work to teams. It is like asking the NFL Pro-Bowl team to take on the Super Bowl team after a week of practice.
This practice has many cons that don't have to be the cost of doing business. It:
Train your teams on how to become Elite, then keep them together, assign them work and trust them to do it. I promise you; teams are always better than people!
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