Skills For Team Building In Marriage

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Skills For Team Building In Marriage
Skills For Team Building In Marriage

Skills For Team Building In Marriage

-By Bisi Adewale

 

God wants us to be a team player. Regardless of who you are, you need to be able to work well with your spouse as a team.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

1) ACKNOWLEDGING OTHERS: Acknowledging others enhances self-importance and comradeship. In the event of success or achievement, acknowledge the contribution of your spouse as member of your team. Don’t ascribe the glory to yourself alone.

2) ACTIVE LISTEN: In team building, active listening is important. All the team members must be allowed to air their opinions and listened to. This will give them sense of belonging. So always listen to your spouse attentively; that is team work.

3) COLLABORATION: Collaboration is working together with someone to achieve a thing or towards achieving a cause. Here, it is not about individual but it’s about cooperative efforts which bring glory to a team and not individual. Collaborate with your spouse to get things done; don’t be lone rangers.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

4) COMMITMENT: This is about giving your totality to a particular cause or event. One hundred percent commitment is required from every member of the team. Partial commitments will affect team performance. Give your total commitment to your marriage and your family vision to make it a success.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

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5) COMMUNICATION: Constant and continuous communication will help in building team spirit. All team members must speak in one voice with perfect understanding. Find it a thing of joy to talk to your spouse every time; don't ever get tired of talking.

6) CONFIDENCE: Confidence makes a team. Team members must have faith in what they stand for and

in their ability to achieve it. Have confidence in your spouse and work together to achieve your aim.

7) CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: Team is not absence of conflicts. It is the conflict management skill that holds a couple together as a team. Lack of this skill will tear them apart. Don’t allow misunderstanding to stop you; rather, use it to get the best out of each other in your marriage.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

8) CONTRIBUTING: Make contributions. Contribute to the team intellectually, financially, materially and physically. Enjoy getting your spouse’s contribution on every issue that affects you individually or the whole family.

9) COOPERATION: Cooperative efforts should be encouraged. Couple should work together towards achieving a common goal.

10) DEFINING PROBLEMS: The solution to a problem starts with the ability to define it first. Don’t shy away from problems, be a problem solver. So go ahead, know the problem in that marriage and work together to solve it without casting blames.

11) DEPENDABILITY: In your family life, be a reliable fellow who can shoulder responsibility, a dependable person regardless of the situation.

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12) ENCOURAGEMENT: Be the number one encourager of your spouse. Don’t be a discourager.Encouragement helps the family to go extra miles and to achieve more without giving in to defeat.

13) FLEXIBILITY: Life is not a straight line. Avoid rigidity and listen to new ideas from your spouse,embracing new ways of doing things.

14) GOAL SETTING: Set goals with your spouse. Having goals will give you a clear direction and focus. Set a weekly, monthly and yearly goal.

15) HELPFULNESS: Be an agent of help. Help your spouse to rise. Don’t run him down. Be a ladder for your partner to rise.

16) HONESTY: Honesty is the best policy. Lie not. Be honest even when many compromise, make it easy for your spouse to trust you.

17) JOINT DECISION MAKING: Two good heads are better than one. Listen to your spouse’s opinion and make decision together.

18) MANAGEMENT: Be a manager par excellence. Learn to manage people, money, materials, children,neighbours, in-laws, house maids, friends and machines at home. This will determine your results.

19) MOTIVATE: Stir up your mate to a better performance. Help your spouse and children discover their potentials and motivate them to take giant steps.

 

20) MULTITASKING: Be a man of many parts having ability to do many things perfectly. This is the hallmark of a leader. You should know how to cook, raise children, make marriage work and make money among other things.

 

21) OPINION EXCHANGE: Share your spouse’s opinion. Don’t think you are Mr or Mrs Know-it- all. The opinion of your spouse can move you forward. Don’t despise it.

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22) PATIENCE: Your spouse may not believe exactly what you want. He may make mistakes but be patient with him.

 

23) RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: Be a relationship builder; make friends and oil the relationship through:phone calls, visits, gifts. Don’t live in isolation.Skills For Team Building In Marriage

 

24) RESPECTFUL: Don’t be proud, respect anyone that comes your way. Respect your spouse. People will love you if you are respectful, full of godly manners.

 

25) RESPONSIBILITY: Majority run away from responsibility. Only the few that shoulders responsibility are the leaders. Be part of the few. Take up the responsibility to make your home a place to be.

 

26) SHARING CREDIT: Don’t monopolize success. Don’t take credit alone for great results; share it with your spouse and rejoice together.

 

27) TACT: Tact is the skill of creating favourable impression by giving or saying the right thing. Do this always and you will have quality people around you. Be tactful at home; measure your words before you say it out and you will build a great team mate in your husband and wife.

 

28) TRUST: Trust brings strength in unity. Trust your spouse and do everything to be trustworthy

Pastor Bisi Adewale is a family and relationship expert; author of Secret of Irresistible Wife and more than 70 other books on marriage and family life. You can reach him on familybooster@gmail.com, 08068312004, 08051512823, BB: 2AF5C883