Going Higher, by Nike ONI

Are you desirous of achieving great dreams or are you currently working on making one of your dreams a reality? Are you thinking about writing a book, starting your own business or doing something really great to change the world around you? Dreams... you and I may call them but they may eventually turn out to be reality. People like Wole Soyinka (the first black African Nobel Laureate), Ferdinand Magellan (the first to sail around the world), King Sunny Ade and Michael Jackson (notable musicians) etc, were men of like passion - with great dreams and desires who ensured that they used teamwork to make their dreams work.

Like you, I have some really huge dreams, but I have come to understand the bigger the dream, the better the team that I need to make it happen. In order to build our dreams and make the best of it we must realise that having the right people on board our team really matters in order to ensure that they not only connect to our dream but they also are able to key into it with great ease. For instance, I know of a close associate whose dream became a reality by sharing ideas with close family and friends and today despite still undergoing a lot of challenges he is still ensuring that he lives his dream. Not only has he made the dream a reality but has also in one way or the other gotten those who he shared his dreams with and have made meaningful contribution to it involved in its execution.

In the words of Dr John Maxwell "one mistake I've seen people repeatedly make is that they focus too much attention on their dreams and too little on their team". Building a dream team is perhaps the single most important ingredient in making your dream a reality.

Most times we are often faced with several challenges that come along with our dream. Dr John Maxwell has also identified some of these challenges and they type of teams required to tackle them:
For a New Challenge You need a Creative Team
For a Controversial Challenge You need a United Team
For a Changing Challenge
For an Unpleasant Challenge
For a diversified Challenge
For a Long - term Challenge
For a Mountain - sized Challenge You need a Fast and Flexible Team
You need a Motivated Team
You need a Complementary Team
You need a determined Team
You need an Experienced Team

Think about your current dream project and the challenges that it poses and use the correlation table to guide you around decision regarding the type of team you need, to make your dream a reality.
It is also important if you are working with a team currently to assess their ability to cope with your specific challenge(s). You may need to make additional investments in growing them, adding others to support them, or removing the ineffective ones altogether. If this doesn't work, then perhaps you may need to give up your dreams and help others achieve theirs.

In our journey to making our dreams work, we should be careful not to become - "I woulda, coulda, shoulda". We can find the cure for cancer or AIDS, or become the next President, or become the most sought after professional in our areas of competence. All we need is to put together our dream team to make our dream work.