Here’s a great guest post from Külli Koort with a great info graphic on building stronger more successful teams.
Külli Koort is a passionate team member and a marketing director at Weekdone, a start-up that builds progress report software based on popular management methodologies like PPP and OKR.
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Before you are able to build a successful company, you need to build a great team. It all starts from your leadership and how you can be a better manager, a top leader for your team. Like every occupation, it takes time to master, but time is the scarcest resource we have. That’s why we aimed to put together some practical tips you can implement today. Having worked with numerous management techniques and receiving great feedback from teams across the globe, our Weekdone team is ready with the analysis.
Here are 10 practical tips from Weekdone that are easy to implement and will surely bring great results and help you become a great leader.
Start now by saying something positive to your team-members:”
Employees are not stupid and they learn in multiple ways…
Employees learn the culture from…
– pre-employment interviews
– the employee handbook
– what HR says
– what the manager says
– what HR does
- what the manager does
– what the manager rewards
– what the manager punishes
– what the executives say
– what the executives do
– what the executives punish
– what the executives reward
Lastly,
Item 1. employees read the words
Item 2. employees listen to the words
Item 3. employees read the face that speaks the words
Item 4. employees hear the voice that speaks the words
Item 5. employees watch the behaviors of the person who speaks the words.
If Items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 all send the same message, then the employee is fortunate.
If Item 1 and 2 do not send the same message, Item 2 controls.
If Item 2 and 3 do not send the same message, then Item 3 controls.
If Item 3 and 4 do not send the same message, then Item 4 controls.
If Item 4 and 5 do not send the same message, then Item 5 controls.
If we want to create effective employees, then all words, faces, voices, and behaviors need to send the same message. I suspect that many employees will see through contrived behaviors.
Bob, i understand your point and a free with them. Are you saying you think info graphic is wrong? Whch is okay, we learn so much more from disagreements that agreements
Gordon, Like what you are saying. What are the sources of the statistics you are quoting?
I like all of the points on the list, however there is only one on the list, that can only be followed by the manager, and that is, setting clear objectives and goals.
If all the other points are handed over to self-organizing teams the productivity will increase even more. As a manager, one is a bottleneck, so after setting goals, one needs to just get out of the way and let people do their job.