❶ Provide an inspiring vision and strategic alignment. Formulate guiding principles and set common and consistent strategic goals.

Team Culture

Team Building

❷ Define shared values jointly with team members. Set standards of behavior for working together that are seen as appropriate for everyone in the team. Team members participate in establishing shared values and values-based common goals if you wish them to live these values, be committed to these goals, and have a feeling of interdependence and ownership for their jobs and unit.

Why and How To Create Shared Values

Team vs. Group

Inspiring Culture

Make Everybody a Team Player

Let Values Rule

❸ Give interesting challenges that inspire intellectual teamwork and joint creative activities. Set stretch targets. According to Jack Welch, stretching tells team members that the leaders want to "get the best out of people not by fighting budgets, but by getting people to do the best they can."

7 Elements of a Winning Team

Stretch Goals

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

❹ Develop team leaders. Involve everyone and help people grow as both individuals and as a team. Provide motivational coaching. "Deal with your staff and employees as co-workers. Trust and serve them," advised Konosuke Matsushita.

9 Roles of a Team Leader

Inclusive Leadership

Help People Grow

❺ Find the right fit for each person and ensure role clarity among team members. Celebrate diversity and synergize perceptions, competencies, knowledge, ideas, and skills of all team members.

Find the Right Fit for Every Employee: Laziness-Smartness Matrix

❼ Encourage team activities. Play entrepreneurial simulation games, such as InnoBall (Innovation Brainball) with promising ideas.

Great Benefits of the InnoBall Simulation Game