Successfully leading your team : Successfully leading your team
Objectives : Objectives You know how to build a team
You know how to lead your team
You are aware of what you still have to work on and what you are good at
And at the end…
Team Management : Team Management 1) Building a team
2) Leading a team
3) Tracking an ER team
Building a team : Building a team Group of People x High Performing Team
Get to know your team
3. Define team vision & goals
4. Agree on roles and responsibilities
5. Planning & tracking
6. Team identity
Changing a group of people into a high performing team : Changing a group of people into a high performing team It goes through stages: “Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing”
Team building is a process. The actions you as a leader take (or does not take) shapes the team culture.
Get to know your team : Get to know your team Belbin Test
Competency Assessment
Weaknesses & strenghts
Informal moments (not only in the beginning)
Set a team vision & goals : Set a team vision & goals USE & TRACK the team vision
building the vision
constantly bring the team vision to make decisions
track the progress of the team towards the vision
track by painting the vision sentences in red, yellow or green
Agree on roles and responsiblities : Agree on roles and responsiblities Agree each individual job description
Everybody understands their contribution for the team, the vision & the goals
Clear JDs!!!
Team rules : Team rules Team rules: what is acceptable and what is not:
What is the periodicity of team meetings?
Are the team meetings required (what is an acceptable excuse to skip one meeting)?
Can I be late (how much time is acceptable)?
Can I schedule external meetings as an excuse to skip the Area Meeting
How is the planning being tracked?
USE the rules – It’s the team leader’s role to call early team members’ behaviours that are not following the set rules.
Other good action to do is to remember periodically the team rules, evaluate their effectiveness and see if the team wants to add, remove or modify some of the rules.
Team meetings : Team meetings Team meetings – one of the most common problems on team processes is poorly managed or not frequent enough team meetings.
Ideally a team should meet every week and the meetings should generate concrete next steps towards achieving the team plan.
You as a team should arrive with defined topics to be covered
Also, send these topics previously so that, members can ask to include new discussions and/or prepare for the other ones
Steps for Planning & Tracking : Steps for Planning & Tracking 1) Involve your team in the team planning and setting deadlines.
2) Allocate individual responsibilities
3) Ask your team members to build their individual plans.
4) Sit with each team member and evaluate their planning progress, as well as the team progress. If necessary, adjust the planning to keep on the right direction.
Milestones and recognition – it’s important to have not only end goals, but also milestones to achieve. (Example: track number of meetings, phone calls, hot contacts, etc)
Recognize them - Don’t forget to recognize people for their achievements and also celebrate these smaller achievements as a team.
Leading by example : Leading by example As a leader, you should act as you expect your team members to act.
How? Don‘t miss deadlines or break the rules: for sure they will do the same.
Incentive feedback: 360 Assessment!!!
Team identity : Team identity Having team logo, motto, t-shirts, roll call is something that can create a sense of unity, being part of TEAM :)
How to lead a team? : How to lead a team? 1.Plan your personal development and the one of your team
2.Take care of peoples‘ motivation
Plan your personal development and the one of your team : Plan your personal development and the one of your team The performance goals as well as development goals should be reviewed once a month. Personal Development Organizational Goals Competencies, Skills and knowledge I want & need to acquire How can I develop them through the JD?
What opportunities can I take up in order to acquire them?
Take care of peoples‘ motivation : Take care of peoples‘ motivation Feedback & 360 (Feedback is an extremely impactful tool which may either motivate people a lot or demotivate if used not properly)
Take care of peoples‘ motivation : Take care of peoples‘ motivation Coaching is a tool to estimulate and measure development of both coach and coachee:
Group coach
Individual coach
„Informal“ coach