Four Common Strategies You Can Adopt to Succeed
Increase the team's level of exposure - As the team leader one of your roles is to educate and bring enlightenment - since you are the vision carrier, team members expect you to at least know more about the company and subject matter which they are focusing on. Your role as a team leader or director is to ensure that you give the team members the education and coaching they need. Ensure that the induction period is loaded with as much information about the company, history, product line, leadership etc.
Educate them and see how they just flow. Expose the team beyond their responsibility so that they see a bigger picture not a fraction of the business. Avoid team members sliding into comfort zones where they say "I am only good at this and not that.." When team members are well exposed to a number of things, they can help you in times where multi-tasking becomes necessary. Love and care - Anticipate the needs of your people and meet some of them before they arise.
That is love. When you meet the team member's physical, social, financial and psychological needs, you will be guaranteed that they will give back their best voluntarily. When a leader shows that he/she is certainly interested in the team member's welfare as a person, the individual's energy levels are maximized. No one wants to work for a selfish company where it is always about the company benefiting from the team member's efforts and not vice-versa.
Challenge the team with targets and goals- If team members do not have an idea what you consider as good performance then anything they do seems OK in their own sight. Bring awareness in terms of what "Excellent, good, average and poor" performance is. They will always endeavor to achieve the best. As a team leader, your role is to give feedback on progress and continue to lift the bar whenever targets are achieved. Once a goal is attained, avoid loss of energy by making them aim for a new target. Most team members are adventurous at the core. They just lack the platform with the right amount of adventure sometimes.
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