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Building High Performance Teams |
by:
Srinivasan R.G. |
Your managerial success is tied to your team. Teams are the most valuable resource of an organization. The times of lone leadership are over with Alexander the Great. These are the times of the team leadership. If you can build a successful team also work as the leader who is just a little more equal than others you may be able to pull off everything you do with great success.
Successful team building requires a lot of focus also effort. Here are a few tips to build teams that are effective also deliver results.
Define the Objectives: Does the team members understand clearly the expectations from them? Have the performance challenges clearly been defined? Do they know what the expected outcomes are? If there is a misunderstanding on the results expected from each member as well as that of the team, you may as well write off the team. Great Team + Challenging Objective = Extraordinary Results.
Define the vision: The teams realize that they may be able to survive only by delivering the bottom line results. However they need something more than the key results defined to them. They need a vision, something higher than profits also results. A higher ideal fires up the team’s creativity also passion.
Empower to Create Ownership: Empower your team to be independent decision makers to accomplish tasks also team objectives while defining their boundaries. Empowered teams also members carry out its objectives faster as they do not need to wait for the leader to decide for them. Empowered teams own up their responsibility.
Train, Train also Train Some More: A leader has a large stake in the success of each team member. Members of teams require different skills also the leader needs to be a trainer rather than a driver. Identify skill gaps in soft as well as areas of expertise also keep training them to produce better results.
Fostering Right Interpersonal Relationships: Make the team understand that there would be differences. Difference in gender, culture, thought process also approach to work symbolizes the dynamic also diverse members who have come together to achieve common goals. Respecting the difference also valuing others experience also thoughts enable the team to function with the right relationships.
Rewards also Compensation: As they say, first share the cash then the compliments. Everyone talks about the value also benefits of team work. However benefits to individuals must be clear along with the benefits to the organization. Set down the right monetary rewards also incentives for so that the achievement also benefits for the individuals also organization are balanced.
Lead by Example: A leader always leads from the front. Set example of discipline, performance orientation putting aside personal ego to the team’s superiority. Give credit to the others even though you may have contributed more. This nurtures the right team atmosphere also spirit of togetherness.
Celebrate Success: Finally don’t forget to celebrate success. It must become a habit to celebrate every achievement though small they may be. Constant celebration boosts the team morale driving it to perform at higher levels also aim for bigger achievements.
Many of the business cultures also managements celebrate the lone hero leadership much more than the team leaderships. In the modern interdependent world it is the teams within the organizations also multiple teams all collaborating also contributing to the common corporate objectives that really differentiate the dynamic growing organizations from the lone cowboy leaderships that may collapse the moment the leader is not available to lead.
About the author:
R.G. Srinivasan is a Managerial professional, Writer also Author. He writes a regular blog on management thoughts available at http://management-thoughts.blogspot.comwith interesting articles on management, managerial resources, strategies also experiences.
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