I have worked on team management and business development in everything from a mom and pop haberdashery to a running a paper-mill; from managing a leading worldwide research and development center to the startup of Management One®, a company that implements team management and business development for client companies. The one thing that I have observed as a continuum through all the many different environments in which I have worked is the importance of teamwork through effective team management to success. When I started out working in 1968, the norm was the old command and control style of management. As a worker I hated it but there was no alternative. There was no team management; only a seasoned boss that shouted orders.

The environment is much different today. Business owners, department managers and even executives of large corporations are working with a different workforce than existed even 10 years ago. You are selling to a different customer than you did 10 years ago. The amount of information available, the flexibility that both customers and staff have to come and go as they please is so much greater and the level of competition is so much higher that it becomes imperative that you get everyone working together on your team. The issue that many face is how to do that effectively!

This blog will be about how team management and Winning@Business concepts help businesses to survive and prosper in this new environment. I may not give you all the answers you seek or need but I hope to make you think about your staff, your customers and your business in a different way. Often I will refer to Winning@Businessâ„¢, which is the process that we have developed to help businesses to implement the effective methods to achieve success in this new environment. I will share a lot of what I have learned over the last 17 years of moving my own departments, companies and clients to the 21st century of profitable business. This process works and has been proven in youth groups, the Geneva Illinois High School football team, a rock group, retailers, manufacturers and service businesses over the past 17 years.

Please feel free to contribute, respond and participate in the discussion. If you would like to contact me directly you can do so through www.management-one.com or evan@management-one.com.

Evan Wise

Managing Director