Looking back to look forward: If you’re building your team agenda for 2013, perhaps ask yourself what you can learn from the best teams of 2012.

Return every day to discover our other "Superteams of 2012". 

Tomorrow - Musical Superteam of the Year.

While everyone is looking forward to 2013, perhaps we can spare one last moment to look back at the best performing teams of 2012.

There were some incredible achievements throughout the year, but which teams stood out from the rest?

Our Superteam of 2012

Team GB 

Despite tough competition, the standout Superteam of 2012 could not have legitimately been any other.

The teams representing Great Britain at London's Olympic and Paralympic games this summer not only excelled themselves through sporting achievement, but more importantly, they brought the nation an unexpectedly overwhelming sense of pride.

The commitment, emotion and spirit that oozed out of every team member inspired an immeasurable and uncharacteristic positive energy amongst us all. 

It is indicative of the amazing success of this summer’s games that eleven of the twelve nominees for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award were members of one of these two inspirational teams.

If you add in the organising team at LOCOG and the ever-present and ever-smiling games makers, the London games were unmatched by any other collective effort in 2012.

Team Talk

So what lesson can we learn from this mammoth organisational success?

If we strip the uncountable successes of the games down to their bare bones, we find a common denominator - a common passion for what the games represent.

Early pessimism over London's ability to stage a successful Olympics gave way to an overpowering sense of common purpose, a desire to present our nation to the world. This common purpose was not just embodied by the athletes, but by the meticulous organisational efforts, the dedicated volunteers, and even many transformed sceptics.

A collective effort striving for greatness, with all its parts driving in the same direction, produced an entity that was greater than the sum of its parts. People invested their hearts, as well as their minds, to go beyond business as usual and share in the energy and excitement of a successful games.

Bringing everyone together - athletes, organisers and games makers – created an energy and vision that then rippled out to supporters and tourists alike.

The common purpose of a successful London games also provided a unified feel-good factor that, for many, offered much needed respite from domestic economic woes.

Well…. at least for a little while.

Return to the blog tomorrow to find out who our "Musical Superteam of the Year" is, and read more about forging a common purpose to start building your agenda for action today.

Written by Sam Ramsden

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