The Business Building Process Part 7
Building a winning team is a huge factor responsible for the success of a business. Prove strategies should be applied to influence people to work together towards end results and mutual gain. Businesses of all sizes experience greater tangible payoffs and reach levels of optimal productivity when people work together.
The underlying strength behind every team is the diversity each member brings to it. This blending of talent, attributes and experience often is a managerial and leadership challenge. But if you teams resources can be effectively managed and utilized your business will become more efficient and effective in accomplishing results.
You can empower your team by;
- Effective and open two way communication
- Providing opportunities for them to take risks and make mistakes so they can learn and grow,
- Giving them responsibilities and making them accountable. (Delegation)
It is important to remember that when you delegate that the person who will be doing the task knows exactly what to do, is trained appropriately to do the task, knows what the expected outcome is, knows who they are accountable to and who will be evaluating their work.
As the team leader it is important to remember that different people take instructions and learn skills in different ways. Only 20% of people are auditory learners, people that receive and easily comprehend verbal information. The rest are either visual learners that need to see a diagram, picture or read what to do or kinesthetic learners who need to actually do something before they fully understand. I have evaluation tools that help you determine which form of communication is best for each of your employees.
The underlying strength behind every team is the diversity each member brings to it. This blending of talent, attributes and experience often is a managerial and leadership challenge. But if you teams resources can be effectively managed and utilized your business will become more efficient and effective in accomplishing results.
You can empower your team by;
- Effective and open two way communication
- Providing opportunities for them to take risks and make mistakes so they can learn and grow,
- Giving them responsibilities and making them accountable. (Delegation)
It is important to remember that when you delegate that the person who will be doing the task knows exactly what to do, is trained appropriately to do the task, knows what the expected outcome is, knows who they are accountable to and who will be evaluating their work.
As the team leader it is important to remember that different people take instructions and learn skills in different ways. Only 20% of people are auditory learners, people that receive and easily comprehend verbal information. The rest are either visual learners that need to see a diagram, picture or read what to do or kinesthetic learners who need to actually do something before they fully understand. I have evaluation tools that help you determine which form of communication is best for each of your employees.