You can either hope for togetherness or you can plan for it.The challenge in any team is to bring together unique individuals and identities and blend them together into a shared identity. A shared identity is not about creating clones of the player the leader wants, or robots all programmed to do the same thing. It’s about a group of individuals coming together and going on a journey that will be life-changing.Fernando Torres said, “Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.”The art of togetherness is knowing how to turn each member of the team from themselves, towards the group and build a shared sense of us.This is not done overnight, it’s a journey. But you can map that journey out. As you understand what’s most important to each individual and build common purpose, cultivate shared values, become an ambassador of the history and culture of the group and unite everyone on a shared vision of success, you will bind people together and forge a sense of us-ness that will do remarkable things.
