Ambassador of Possibility

Teams are powerful, pivotal, crucial, and fundamental to success…but at times, choosing a team that will successfully accomplish what needs to be done can be difficult.   You need a group of individuals who compliment each other, and more importantly,compliment the focus of  your project.  My Wealthy Writer’s Wisdom program addresses this very issue in the lesson 5  workbook, The Discipline of Writing. Here is an excerpt to help explain the elements that make up a great team:

There will always be portions of the writing process that you aren’t good at, that is why it is so important to work with people who compliment your unique skills.  You need both starters and finishers to successfully produce a book, or anything for that matter. 

 

I want to share something with you that a good friend of mine, Paul Roper, taught me.  Within the realm of starters and finishers, there are 3 sub-groups: dreamers, builders, and drivers.  These groups are a less general way of breaking down the integral parts of a project, and the types of people that you need to complete one successfully.

 

Dreamers:  Dreamers fall into the starter category.  Dreamers dream big, and give the project initial direction, and it’s overall goal.  Dreamers are generally very imaginative, and are often accused of being eccentric.  I am a dreamer. Ford was a dreamer. Edison was a dreamer.

 

Builders: Builders are the people who provide a project with its structure.  They handle contracts, negotiations, and planning.  Builders are finishers and often appear as lawyers, consultants, and accountants.  They build the foundation of the project.

 

Drivers: Drivers are the people who make the project work everyday.  They make sure that the plan that the builders lay out is executed.  The drivers can fall into either the starting or the finishing category, depending on what they are doing, but most often fall into the finishing category.  Without drivers, the dreamers and builders would have a wonderful concept and blue-print, but no crew to execute it.

 

All of these elements need to work, and focus, together to make spectacular things happen, and that is exactly why you need to know where you fit into the relationship. 

When choosing your team, don’t forget to ask these three questions:

1.     Do I like them?

2.     Do I trust them?

3.     Do I respect them?

If your choice can’t get a yes to all three, they probably won’t be a good fit for your team.  

There are many aspects needed to pull a project together, particularly a book.  If you have ever been interested in writing a book, you should come to one of the free breakfast meetings I will be hosting this month!  For more information, on dates and venues, please click here!  I would love to see you there!

-Mark