Six Ways to Build A Winning Team

 

Your business is growing, you have started to employ staff, but how do you ensure that everyone is working together for the good of your business.   There are six steps that you need to follow when creating a strong team.

  • Focus on Strong Leadership – Having strong leaders within your business is vital, whether it is just you or your management team. You need to be someone who communicates well and who everyone trusts.  As a leader you will inspire others to go that extra mile.  Businesses that have strong leadership display the following behaviours.  Solving problems effectively.  Operating with a strong results orientation.  Seeking different perspectives. Supporting others
  • Set Common Goals – You need to ensure that you have a Common Goal.  Your team need to have a clear understanding of the direction that your business is heading in, what the goals are for the next month, quarter and year.  Most importantly of all, they need to understand their role in the process and how they can help you achieve it.
  • Rules of the Game– It is important to ensure that your employees know what your core values are and what is expected of them. It is also vital that they all understand the reason for the rules, and that by sticking to them they are helping you to reach your end goal.
  • Develop an Action Plan – It is all very well having a great company culture, with a set of common goals but you will not achieve your desired results unless you have an action plan that sets out WHO does WHAT by WHEN. This needs to have a list of logical steps with tasks and deadlines assigned to you and your team.
  • Support Risk Taking – I am not suggesting that you throw caution to the wind, I am advocating that you allow your team to take calculated risks particularly where it might lead to innovation.  You are not going to make progress unless you take a few risks here and there.  I’d love to hear your examples of this happening with in your business, don’t be shy share your experience in the comments below.
  • Involve and include all people in the team – You need to ensure that you have the Involvement and Inclusion of all the people in your team. In order for this to happen you will need to lead from the front and encourage the complete commitment of your team.  This might mean that some members of your team decide to leave, but don’t be afraid as ultimately the success of your team needs this to happen.
  • A little extra – WIFLE – What I Feel Like Expressing – encourage everyone to share how they are feeling and any ideas they may have.

 

If this is an area that resonates with you then you might like to consider arranging a team alignment session.  This activity allows you to ensure you have the total buy in of your senior management team.  A key part of the team alignment session is the opportunity to brainstorm the way forward for the business.  This is important because so often it is the people who do the doing, who come up with the best ideas.   These sessions help the business to move forward secure in the knowledge that everyone is working towards the same goals.  Remember Together Everyone Achieves More and there is no I in TEAM – you cannot do it on your own, you need your team.

 

So give me a call on 07952 112432 or click here Click here to send me an email to arrange your team alignment session.