Wow, I had an inspiring team meeting tonight and that really makes me happy. As you may know working in or with a team seems not to have been my strongest point and it may still not be, but tonight made me feel that I am making progress in the area of teamwork.
And the main issue of me related to teamwork seems to be patience. I just need to learn to slow down and let other people pick up ideas and such and not just push my thinking, probably especially not the things I have thought through. And I guess I am a quick thinker also, so it’s hard to imagine someone else is not that quick. But it might also be that everybody is a quick thinker for his own thoughts, for his own things, for his own issues, for his own goals, but that it is hard anyhow to get to someone else’s thoughts, especially if it’s a subject that’s not really yours or a subject that the other didn’t think through as you did.
And looking at myself I still see myself type a lot as in tonight’s chat or talk a lot, but maybe that’s just me (and/or my impatience). But I’m asking myself more and more what the effect is of that, if it adds to what I want to achieve or not.
So still a learning process, but I am starting to see that you can do much, much more in a team than you can do alone. As long as you allow the team to grow, and that, indeed, takes some patience.