Nimlok Tradepoints:
Guidelines for Working as a Team - Part 1

On the tradeshow floor it's critical that your staff representatives, whether they are product managers, sales representatives or marketing personnel, work as a team.

The following guidelines will help you achieve a coordinated effort:

1. Know what you want the team to accomplish.
2. Understand what success means to the team.
3. Decide what kind of teamwork will be necessary to do the job well.
4. Recognize each team member's strength.
5. Identify how the individual team members will support each other.
6. Assess what could go wrong with the project.
7. Determine how you are going to get things back on track when something goes wrong.
8. Discuss prevention tactics.
9. Develop a plan to help prevent problems from occurring.
10. Think about who will do what specific activity.
11. Discuss how decisions will be made.
12. Consider different ways to handle the project.