This content was created by Sean Glaze. This content was uploaded by Sean Glaze. This is a YouTube video titled "Teamwork Speaker Sean Glaze Teambuilding Conference Keynotes to Improve your Culture!" (created 2018-12-24). The excerpt is a keynote/teambuilding speech delivered as a monologue by Sean Glaze about building connected, accountable teams. Key points: individuals join organizations with personal goals and only become a team by choosing to be part of something larger; leaders must connect people to a compelling common goal and to each other; talent is necessary but not sufficient; culture is shaped by repeated behaviors and awareness can change behavior; cites a Harvard Business School study on the negative financial impact of toxic teammates and the positive impact of strong teammates. The content is motivational/leadership training focused on team dynamics, collaboration, morale, and culture.
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What would it take for your people to be more connected, to be more accountable, to be more aware of the impact their efforts and attitude had on others? Having been a basketball coach, you gotta have the obligatory phrase, "There's no I in team." And it sounds so good, doesn't it? It sounds so— there's no I in team. Well, having coached for 20 years, I can tell you I completely disagree. Every athlete that I ever coached was first and foremost an individual. Every person in this room joined this organization first and foremost as an individual with your own desires and challenges and thoughts and expectations.. And you only become a team when you make the conscious choice, the choice to be a small part of something larger and more significant than yourself. But winning teammates know that you need two connections to create the energy that you want in your organization, in your home, in your office. The two things that winning teammates connect to our compelling common goal, and each other. In both sports and business, leading a team comes down to the exact same thing. It's connecting them to a compelling common goal so you know what they're trying to accomplish that they wouldn't be able to alone. And then it's connecting them to each other so they care about the people, because it's what you care about that you're going to give far more effort to make sure that you're actually successful with. Talent's important. You gotta have talent. You gotta be good at what you do. Talent's essential. You're not going to win games without a little bit of talent. But while talent's essential, it is never sufficient. If you want a winning team, if you want to enjoy wins, whatever area you're focusing on, Talent's necessary, but it's never enough. Harvard Business School, not too far away, actually did a study of 60,000 employees just a couple of years ago, and in that study they found that bad teammates, toxic teammates, actually cost companies $12,000 a year in their profits. A positive teammate, a superstar, a winning teammate can have a complete opposite impact and can actually add $5,000 to company profits because of the influence they have on others. Every corporation struggles with morale and collaboration. Morale is always going to be the result of people feeling connected to a purpose and the people around them. Collaboration is very similar. Your people are going to collaborate more when they have relationships, because I'm far more likely to reach out to somebody to share or request information if I've got a foundation of a connection that allows that. It's only when you know someone's hardships and highlights and heroes and challenges and desires, when you begin to see them as a person that you begin to understand them as a teammate. Culture is nothing more than repeated and allowed behaviors, and behaviors are influenced by awareness. So the more you can improve someone's awareness, the more you can change their behavior, and that's how you change culture.
