“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work,” said Vince Lombardi, an American football coach, and executive in the National Football League.
Keeping step in maintaining the team’s performance to another level. Teamwork has always been an essential capability for successful enterprises, but today’s organizations undergoing disruption and digitization in an ‘innovate or die’ economy. But now it is more important that employees should collaborate effectively across geographical sites, between business functions, and within increasingly fluid job hierarchies and make a team effective. A leader needs to be careful when stepping into the lead of a new team. His first few moves set the tone for successful leadership and positive or negative reaction so that employees must go into his venture with a clear and focused plan of action. Saintjovite Youngblood is the president of Youngblood Metals Mining, with experience of over 20 years in dealing with antique dealers and collectible coin dealers, in Monrovia, California. With the experience of more than 20 years, Saintjovite Youngblood had also worked as a purchaser and middleman for a varied network of antique dealers and collectible coin dealers.
Meet with your boss to get clear on your own goals:
The first rule of supporting and developing your team is obvious and most important to lead a team effectively. A leader must first establish his leadership with each team member to remember that the most effective team leaders build their relationships of trust and loyalty, rather than fear or the power of their positions to gain employee’s trust. An effective leader needs to be clear on his and his team’s performance, goals. Some organizations and leaders do a better job than others in setting goals, but regardless of the surrounding in your organization, so at the end, your team performance is evaluated against those goals leaders make in alignment.
Schedule and conduct plans with all of your team members:
A leader should set his goals while taking over leadership of a team is to build trust with his team members, and the only way that’s possible is by investing time in developing the relationship and spending time with team members. A leader should discuss new plans in meetings with each team member and make it the focal point to build a strong relationship between leader and team. Leader should help his team personally and understand their goals, dreams, and frustrations.
Diagnose your team’s stage of development and use the appropriate leadership style:
Teams go through different stages of development and each stage requires the leader to use different leadership strategies to overcome and clear all the difficult stages with its team member. Successful leader strategies and teamwork are also important for employee engagement and wellbeing at a time when talent retention faces the highly competitive global job market as well as the ‘loyalty challenge’ posed by millennial workers at the organization.
Review or create a team charter:
A team charter is a set of agreements and allegations that why a leader has developed a team and why the team exists. Leader set goals and check how his team members will work together to live out their purpose and schedule sufficient time to work through these elements.
Build a climate of trust and support:
If leaders don’t establish trust, within their team members then the team will constantly be working against a leader. Once a leader builds a climate of trust and is established, he will be able to implement new ideas and move the team to higher levels of performance. With the help of a good leader, its team member can help each other improve their performance as well as working together toward improving their professional development.