Building Effective Teams Boosts Businesses’ Success

Great people are the foundation of a successful business, but you won’t get far if you just hire a bunch of top talent and set them loose. Building effective teams with your employees is essential to getting the most out of them and your business. That isn’t always as easy as it sounds, though.Consider these expert tips to help you in building effective teams at your company.Build Better Teams That Achieve More. TLNT: “Organizations are beginning to explore relatability, incorporating employee empowerment, engagement, and relational insights into the way they manage their teams and people. For the professional HR team, this means increased emphasis on hiring the right people, fostering a climate where people understand themselves and each other, and helping employees adapt their communication style to best relate to others. When people understand each other, teams are able to work with greater trust, improved communication, and better performance.”4 Tips to Live By to Build a Team Full of “A” Players. Tech.co: “In business when trying to attract talent, while money is still a driving factor, other variables come into play. Many studies show that employees who are happy with their workplace culture and environment are willing to give up higher salaries in lieu of quality of life….Don’t be afraid of transparency. The more openness in the company, the more internal barriers you knock down. At Zeeto, we’ve created a reporting platform to track our key metrics and daily financial progress and give all employees viewing access. Hold weekly, monthly and quarterly company updates. This will create trust and let everyone know that we’re all in this together. You get a greater buy in from employees when they feel like they are ‘in the know.’ Sure, you risk people jumping ship through the rough patches, but the return is worth the risk.”How to Build Effective Virtual Teams. The Future of Business Collaboration: “Communication is the cornerstone of any effective team, in-person or virtual, but the gravity of its importance increases significantly when dealing with remote workers. Communication is all that remote workers have, and if it’s being ineffectively handled, remote team members can often begin to feel isolated and out of the loop. Focusing on ‘better communication’ is a vague suggestion at best. Rather, focus on intentionally overdoing it; in other words, go out of your way to communicate even the smallest details to your remote team members, the kind of information you take for granted that they can’t glean from an overheard conversation or casual hallway chat. Check-in regularly on how they feel about their role and their contribution to the larger team as a whole.”Do This One Thing to Build a Strong Team and Grow Business. SteamFeed: “Flex-time is a popular workplace benefit for a good reason. Different people hit their performance peaks at different hours of the day. Your company may also have team members in various time zones. When it is feasible for your business, providing your team members with the flexibility of setting their own hours – within reason – can make sense toward building a more productive company. For example, you may ask them if they prefer coming in early so they can leave early. Or perhaps they would rather come in late and stay later. Maybe they would be happier with shorter or longer lunch breaks so they can use that time accordingly. As for contractors, you can ask when they’ll make themselves available to you. Providing options for work schedules is also a great way of acknowledging the individual needs of each team member.”How to Assemble an Effective Team for Accomplishing Your Business Goals. Smart Business Development: “Without that attitude, without the winning attitude, the grit, the combination, the focus, there’s very little you can do for people who just aren’t living up to your standards and your needs. So focus on developing a winning attitude, the grit and the focus that it takes. And also, learn to accept and respect and accommodate the differences because there will be differences in the way people approach the things that you want them to do and accommodate that as long as the results are part of your winning team. Do not let people get by with being the weakest member of your team. Encourage them to learn to grow to become better. Or if you have to, remove them and get somebody who understands.”Need help building effective teams within your organization? Contact us; we’d love to help!Success Labs is a leadership development and management consulting firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For more than 25 years, our expert team of consultants has worked with hundreds of companies to explore their business potential and improve their company and cultural performance. Contact us to get proactive about your people strategy.