Why TeamFit Matters
The beginning of a New Year is accompanied by moments of reflection and speculation. Predictions and resolutions abound as people look to plan and forecast their future.
For those who know me, work and career have always been central to my being. In an early-stage company, everyone is critical to shaping and realizing the company’s aspirations. Our personal well-being and interests, our venture’s overall success are governed by our entire team’s effort, and each of us is aware of this. It is up to each of us to contribute as a team and support each other in getting our tasks done.
As I reflect on my decision to join the TeamFit, I first considered my options of where I wanted to take my professional career next. I knew I wanted to be part of a focused organization where I could have a positive impact on, not only the valuation of the company that I was involved with, but I also wanted to positively impact the cultural vibe of the company as well. Being able to build on a concept, take it to commercial viability, and capture a strong market position is a career goal that I am determined to achieve. This is not something to be achieved in isolation; it requires a team. I believe that everyone on our core team shares the aspiration to build something great. We all want to be valued and appreciated for our contributions, truly help those we serve. As a team, we have to believe in not only our vision to get there but recognize that we have the ownership and voice over the plan, and its execution to reach our shared goal. I have always been fortunate to work with astute entrepreneurs and some extremely talented individuals. Aiming to work with people who I could truly connect with and have complementary strengths has helped me to develop and to learn, bringing me to new heights. As social beings, people have an innate need to belong and sense accomplishment.
Why TeamFit Matters. When I was first introduced to the concept TeamFit, its promise of enabling the ability to optimize team building, assignment, and overall outcome, I was immediately able to relate to the business value such a product would provide. This was especially true when I considered revenue-generating service-based organizations. These organizations have the challenge to ensure the elasticity of its delivery teams in order to optimize the utilization and output of their delivery teams with the intent of maximizing revenue and successful project outcome while ensuring project outcomes matched stakeholder expectations. Where the centrality of projects is the norm for how work is accomplished, the need to efficiently allocate tasks, responsibilities and deliverables to an available team of resources who have proven capabilities and experiential knowledge is critical to get solid results. The challenge to achieve this is multiplied as certain service-based industries become more dependent on building teams with highly valued, specialized, outsourced expertise.
But what’s in it for the individual? The choice to be on teams should not only be governed by the organization; rather elevate overall accountability, commitment and engagement, I would imagine that the more highly skilled, highly specialized, senior and experienced a resource, the more that person’s desire to have autonomy over the projects in which he would want to be involved with would also increase. To chart one’s own destiny, one needs to be given the flexibility to choose and chart their own path and determine which teams one would really like to be involved with.
For me, for 2015, I am looking forward to being part of the TeamFit and the team that is establishing the groundwork necessary to enable TeamFit to have significance for its community of stakeholders – creating a product that matters.
