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- Be a great listener – ask people about themselves and really listen.  Don’t talk about yourself at all, unless they ask – twice!
- Trust people more – give them the initial benefit of the doubt.
- Help the quiet ones to participate – ask them for their views.
- Don’t assume that the others know what you know – check.
- Reveal a bit more about yourself than you normally would.
- Ask for feedback – and take it on board.
- Think about your weaknesses and get others to cover those for you.
- Deliberately use your second or third preferred team role rather than always your top one (e.g. you don’t have to always be the organiser, or the critic, or the carer)
- Suggest that someone (maybe you sometimes) wears the black hat – this is the person whose job it is to think about what might go wrong. Otherwise groups and teams are prone to over optimism.
- Appreciate difference – the people who annoy you are there to do the things you don’t want to, e.g. the detail, the questioning, the worrying, the pushing, etc.
- Eat with the others more often that you have done – the best team bonding happens over food!
I follow back some of who come by and like’ sonhietmg of mine my apple and peach salad you liked’ brought me here, I like what I see and will spend some more time reading your blog I hope to see you again!