The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

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b. Team organization focuses on each member and team unit setting measurable and attainable goals in sync with the team’s overall goal, and then developing plans and strategies in order to mobilize the team members around its overall “game plan.”

3. The Principle Explained

a. Organization occurs best within teams that recruit effective leadership, which functions to empower and facilitate the effectiveness of each member individually, and the team as a whole.

b. Organization involves both procedural and structural elements.

(1) Procedurally, it involves the process of setting goals, determining priorities, making strategic plans to carry out our goals, scheduling our lives and managing our resources together to attain them. (2) Structurally, it involves selecting leaders who have been delegated responsibility and authority to empower each team member to know his or her role, as well as to whom one reports, and for whom one is responsible. (3) Team organization arises from within many contexts, and takes place at all levels of responsibility of team play. (4) Organization is not the same as imprisonment to some particular strategy; rather, it involves managing our people, resources, monies, equipment, and facilities with wisdom and skill, proceeding towards our team goals with minimal waste, effort, and conflict.

(5) The opposite of Organization is disorder and haphazardness.

(6) The result of a lack of organization is gross inefficiency.

4. The Golden Key: Plan your effort and activity before you execute and act.