Team Work Makes The Dream Work

New Life In Christ Worship Arts 2014

Team Work

"What is Teamwork?

Teamwork is defined in Webster's New World Dictionary as
"a joint action by a group of people, in which each person
subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to
the unity and efficiency of the group." This does not mean
that the individual is no longer important; however, it does
mean that effective and efficient teamwork goes beyond
individual accomplishments. The most effective teamwork
is produced when all the individuals involved harmonize
their contributions and work towards a common goal.


Clear Goals
Avoid fuzzy, motherhood statements. Team goals should
call for a specific performance objective, expressed so
concisely that everyone knows when the objective has
been met.
Result Driven Structure
The team should be allowed to operate in a manner that
produces results. It is often best to allow the team to
develop the structure.
Competent Team
Players
In the education setting this can be take to mean that the
problem given to the team should be one that the
members can tackle given their level of knowledge. In a
WORSHIP ARTS setting, this means team members need to
understand worship, understand the word of God and have
a sense of church atmosphere.
Unified Commitment
This doesn't mean that team members must agree on
everything. It means that all individuals must be directing
their efforts towards the goal. If an individual's efforts is
going purely towards personal goals, then the team will
confront this and resolve the problem.
Collaborative Climate
The team must have a collaborative climate. It is a climate
of trust produced by honest, open, consistent and
respectful behavior. With this climate teams perform
well...without it, they fail.
High Standards
Team members must know what is expected of them
individually and collectively. The same way you hold your
barber, hair dresser, lawyer, accountant, etc, to a high
standard. The same standard needs to be held in church
(etiquete, uniformity, etc)
External
Support/Encouragemen
t
Encouragement and praise works just as well in motivating
teams as it does with individuals. Pastor J is the director but
we are need to be encouragers one to another. NOT ones
who rebuke, judge or scorn. A loving correction goes
further that a bossy one.
Word Study
(Team work)
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward
for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But
woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another
to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm,
but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man
might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand
hima threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Word Study
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17
Word Study
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot
say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you. On the contrary,
the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are
indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think
less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our
unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
which our more presentable parts do not require. But God
has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part
that lacked it,

1 Corinthians 12:20-25
Word Study
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions
among you, but that you be united in the same mind and
the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 1:10