VISION TOMORROW

A team as efficient and effective as Kenya’s Vision 2030 Contractors…I’m actually convinced they have the capability of building Rome Overnight! I mean, how many times have you passed your daily route in the morning only to find new developments on the road like a new fly over? You swear that you didn’t see it on your way home the previous day but today morning, barely 10hours later there it is in front of you… a whole new fly over with 6 lanes! How did they do that yet they are just above the number of a football team??? A few years back when they first laid out the plan to the public, one would think the government would have to employ a workforce at least the size of two counties. However that’s not the case because on the real they are actually at most, the maximum number of football players in the pitch during a match, that’s 22. How do they do that? They are so few yet they do so much?

Only one thing is clear, they are the epitome example of a human ant’s team work ethics. The ants’ work ethics is professional, it is an art. They have a clearly defined and funnily, an unwritten code of who plays which role and how each is supposed to carry out their duties with one clear goal, Survival and Longevity for their generation and generations to come. The same applies for the vision 2030 workforce. They work hard towards building infrastructure that will be of help today and also survive and last for generations to come. This will in turn benefit the country’s overall economic status in the long run by eradicating several limiting factors…though I won’t venture into that topic, it is too broad and I’m not out to creating a thesis. Anyway question is, if your company was to be contracted to build just one, either a roundabout or flyover, how efficient and effective do you think your team would be in delivering?

                                                                                                                         

Efficiency and effectiveness are directly related to productivity which forms the base for a performance appraisal to any job. In the dictionary productivity is defined as a measure of output from a production process, per unit of input; effectiveness refers to the adequacy to accomplish a purpose while efficiency refers to performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort. In other words, “Being effective is about doing the right things, while being efficient is about doing the things in the right manner.” Therefore, to answer the question of whether your team can deliver one vision 2030 municipal flyover or roundabout, the efficiency and effectiveness of your team will be the determining factor on the overall productivity or success of the project.

Now whether or not you think your team can deliver, there are still a few tips you could deploy in making them master the art of organization in productivity, that is what team work is…

1. Go to the drawing board and map out goals and plans for each member and the team as a whole. You only know where you are going if you understand where you are from and where you are now.
2. Communicate. Do not encourage the culture of assumptions where you do not need to communicate some things as they are “obvious”. When you ASSUME you are only making an ASS out of U and Me.
3. Build relationships. Know each other so that you gain respect, support, cooperation and trust with each other
4. Be timely in resolving issues and making decisions. The sooner you get this done, the sooner you get the ball rolling, the more progressive you are as a team…its all about progression and the excuse department should remain closed!
5. Frequently facilitate productive meetings. What, Why and How should be the basis of any agenda of the meeting.
6. Give a purpose to the team members. Spell out their roles just like any other country’s constitution spells out its laws. This will answer the questions that each team member reflects on from time to time in regards to your organization, that is, ‘who am I?’, ‘why am I here?’ and ‘what should I do to get to where I am supposed to be going?’
7. Illuminate effective team leadership. Effective leadership does not entail solely taking pride in your title as the Head, Leader and Commander in Chief of a team! Rather it entails supporting your team members in a way that you can positively influence their actions towards any accomplishment, being the steeping stone for your team members so that they can all reach greater heights.

Remember numbers never lie, you are either working hard or hardly working. I hope these tips will help you as you roll out into the second quarter of the year. Vision tomorrow Team Work