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How to Create a Winning Spirit

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Is there an “Us” and “Them” in your bid team? It can be hard to create one winning spirit in a bid team, where everyone visibly lines up with equal enthusiasm against the goal. As a bid team member it can be upsetting and frustrating if others don’t seem to be working as hard as you. As the Bid Director,…

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Bid Conflict – key to a winning outcome

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Do you have experience of corrosive conflict in bid teams?  Here’s a brief quiz for December! Was it: (A)   Put under the carpet. In other words, it was denied that the conflict existed, had any impact on the team or the bid outcomes. (B)    The precursor to aggression.  Of course people are polite first. When all else fails, aggression is justified…

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Interdependency wins a bid

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Effective interdependency with other team members is an essential component of winning a bid. From coaching members of numerous teams – Bid, Sales and Leadership teams – I know that working interdependently to achieve high performance is much more easily said than done. It‘s much easier to stay comfortable huddled around our stovepipes or deep inside our silos than it…

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When the pressure in a bid team is high…

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  We’ve all been there. When the pressure is high and the temptation to find fault with your bid colleagues is extremely tempting. This is the stage in the bid when the hard work has nearly all been done, the solution created, the interdependencies worked through, the financial model is coming together and the submission date is looming. There’s an oxymoron; when the bid…

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