Tips to Help You Effectively Manage Teams

Tips to Help You Effectively Manage Teams Managing teams effectively involves many different components, but there are four primary objectives that tend to stand out as most important; mastering these tasks can ensure that you are managing successfully, and will help your team perform at a healthy performance level. Provide feedback and support. Most of the proven methods of establishing yourself as a leader in all areas of business apply to the best team leaders. These qualities include offering consistent feedback, commending good work publicly, strongly supporting all team activities, asking for ideas and feedback, outlining the expected team behaviour, and clearly stating goals and objectives. Your support and encouragement of the team will typically return their loyalty and dedication. Create and implement reasonable and attainable goals. Team goals must be meaningful, above all other considerations. Goal setting can, at times, become more important than the objectives themselves. Avoid this common trap. Meaningful goals will take some thoughtful time to create. They must make sense and provide benefit for the company, the group, and individual team members. Develop individual stars into superior team players. This tip can be easy or difficult to install. Now is the time to use the human management techniques you’ve found or internalized. High performing individuals are sometimes reluctant to blend into a team. They become committed to working alone and believe their notable achievements result from this independence. Sometimes managed competition can give these individuals the excitement they crave to succeed and allow them to become valuable members of the team, too. Foster an environment that encourages team learning. This requires you to emphasize your understanding of the art of management. Learning environments are not usually created by data, numerics or technology. Positive team environments are built through a combination of support, understanding, opportunity and honesty. While learning obviously should be encouraged, you also need to make it challenging, interesting and enjoyable. Often, if you strongly encourage professional bonding and exhort your group to behave like a team, the environment you want will develop. Believe in the iconic rule: “There is no ‘i’ in team.” Melding individuals into a high performing team, bringing out the best of the talent therein, and keeping all members interested and focused is a challenge. And since few managers have the opportunity to hand pick their players, learning to lead a high performing team will make you a more effective manager.