Encouraging Your Team to Success

Team success is important and finding tools to help guide your team down the road to success is important. Knowing what success looks like can be a question that you may have on your mind. According to Webster.com, success is when you achieve a ” favorable or desired outcome”.

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One of the ways that a project manager can help a team achieve a “favorable outcome” is through the use of encouraging words. A timely and correctly placed encouragement can help a team member or a project move towards success.

With this in mind, important saying about team success have been compiled from different sources as a way to help project managers create their own “encouraging quotes”. One way to use this list is to print it and cut out each saying and then give one to each team member. Watch and see how an encouraging word can help make a team member’s day.

• Andrew Carnegie: Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
• Stephen Covey: Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
• Henry Ford: Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
• Mark Twain: Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
• Michael Jordan: Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
• Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach: All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
• Coach Phil Jackson Chicago Bulls: The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.
  
• Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.: A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
  
• Dr. Rob Gilbert: Working together works.
  
• H.E. Luccock: No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
  

Quotes compiled from: http://www.heartquotes.net/teamwork-quotes.html