November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience month, a nationwide effort to raise awareness and reaffirm a commitment to keeping our Nation’s critical infrastructure secure and resilient. This year, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is calling on all Americans to Resolve to be Resilient.
 
Weather is becoming more extreme, physical and cyberattacks are a persistent threat, and technology is advancing in ways that will change our future very quickly. It’s our responsibility to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience. We can do this by embracing resiliency and building it into our preparedness planning—and then exercising those plans.
 
For tips and resources on how get involved, check out this Toolkit: https://lnkd.in/dNNdQBMQ  
 

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Building a Collaborative Team Environment

Teams are expected to produce results, but performance is hindered when team members do not work well together. A collaborative team environment is essential for the team’s success. To create a collaborative environment, team members must practice the following:

Have a Common Purpose and Goal

A team is defined as a group of people working together toward a common goal. Without a goal, there is no team. Ideas for creating a common goal include:

• Create and/or review the team’s charter.
• Discuss why the team exists.
• Allow each team member to express commitment.
• Create mottoes, symbols, awards, or posters that portray the team as one unit.
• Use the common purpose to prioritize team actions.

Trust Each Other

Team members must trust each other if they are to work together successfully. Ideas for creating trust among team members include:

• Be honest.
• Work to eliminate conflicts of interests.
• Avoid talking behind each other’s back.
• Trust teammates (you must trust them before they will trust you).
• Give team members the benefit of the doubt.

Clarify Roles

Knowing everyone’s role and being familiar with the responsibility of those roles create efficiency and flexibility. Ideas for clarifying roles on the team include:

• Review team members’ roles frequently.
• Relate team member expectations to the team’s overall purpose.
• Clarify responsibilities when action planning.
• Learn what others do on the team.
• Figure out ways to help each other.

Communicate Openly and Effectively

Miscommunication can create hard feelings and undermine the success of the team. Ideas for improving communication include:

• Err on the side of overcommunicating.
• Seek to understand all angles.
• Take responsibility for being heard and understood.
• Work to clear up misunderstandings quickly and accurately.
• Reinforce and recognize team member efforts.

Appreciate Diversity

Team members come from all walks of life, with different backgrounds and perspectives. Ideas for taking advantage of team diversity include:

• Remember that reasonable people can and do differ with each other.
• Try to learn as much as you can from others.
• Evaluate a new idea based on its merits.
• Avoid remarks that draw negative attention to a person’s unique characteristics.
• Don’t ignore the differences among team members.

Balance the Team’s Focus

Finally, team members need to recognize that they should measure and monitor the products and services the team provides as well as the team’s internal group dynamics and relationships. (Sometimes team members get so involved in the process of becoming a team they forget the reason they were made a team in the first place, or vice versa.) Ideas for creating that balance include:

• Regularly review and evaluate the effectiveness of team meetings.
• Hold team celebrations for achieving results.
• Praise individual effort.
• Design individual performance goals that emphasize both results and teamwork.
• Assign certain team members to monitor task needs and others to monitor relationship needs.

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