“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

New England and a sprawling Red Sox Nation finally exhaled. No more Curse of the Bambino. No more taunts of "1918." The suffering souls of Bill Buckner, Grady Little, and Johnny Pesky were released from Boston Baseball's Hall of Pain when The Red Sox became World Champs in 2004.

Whether in the workplace or on the baseball field, effective teamwork can produce incredible results. However, working successfully as a team is not as easy as it may seem. Effective teamwork certainly does not just happen automatically; it takes a great deal of hard work and compromise.

For the Boston Red Sox, their winning TEAM took 86 years to build!

Teamwork is a joint action by two or more people, in which each person contributes with different skills to the unity and efficiency of the group in order to achieve common goals.

Do you believe that a Supplier + Distributor + End User = Team ?

Teamwork takes....

COMMITMENT: Commitment to the purpose and values of the ASI Industry with a clear sense of direction. Team members must understand how their work fits into the End Users objectives and agree that their team's goals are achievable and aligned.

CONTRIBUTION: The power of an effective team is in direct correlation to the skill set each member possess and the initiative members expend. In business, companies need people who have strong technical and interpersonal skills and are willing to learn.

COMMUNICATION: For Suppliers & Distributors to reach their full potential, each person must be able to say what they think, ask for help, share new or unpopular ideas, and risk making mistakes. This can only happen in an atmosphere where team members show concern, trust one another, and focus on solutions, not problems.

COOPERATION: Most challenges in the workplace today require much more than good solo performance. In increasingly complex organizations, success depends upon the degree of interdependence recognized within the team.

* Follow-through
* Accuracy
* Creativity
* Timeliness.
* Spirit

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: It is inevitable that teams of bright, diverse thinkers will experience conflict from time to time. The problem is not that differences exist, but in how they are managed.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT: To assist teams in the management of change, leaders should acknowledge any perceived danger in the change and then help teams to see any inherent opportunities. They can provide the security necessary for teams to take risks and the tools for them to innovate; they can also reduce resistance to change by providing vision and information, and by modeling a positive attitude themselves.

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