Making Teams Work Together Successfully in 120 seconds.

Making Teams Work Together Successfully in 120 seconds

Speed for corporate junkies who only have 2 minutes 

1.      Get clear in your head, who you are, your personal goals,  your strengths and weaknesses
 
2.      Make clear your business and team goals and make it a common goal

3.      Clarify. document all your team roles and responsibilities

4.      Plan for and mitigate predictable problems

5.      Agree on the rules, guidelines for work performance expectations

6.      Use the team culture to bring about change

7.      GTP, Get to the point and collaborate, collaborate, collaborate

8.      Bring the team ideas to life, enable them to take responsibility

9.      Foster creativity, redesign the processes

10.   Make firm clear decisions and ensure they understand it, clarify it, repeat it

11.   Don’t compromise, it’s your business, your team, your customers, your life

12.   Seek consensus and commitment on new ideas

13.   Immunise against conflict viruses and squash them early

14.   Actively manage differences, show them the process, teach them the process

15.   Trust each other other, people leave managers, mangers let go of staff, it costs money

16.   Reward and recognise each other, regularly, appropriately and genuinely, everyone…

17.   Review the team make up regularly, swap players, buy in new players

18.   Don’t give up, ask for help

19.   Automate redundant functions in the team, people despise mundane activity

20.   Contact Us, outsource the pain

Last tip, put  steps 1- 20 into action, otherwise you will have the same problems

More problems means….moving away from where you'd rather be.

Journey well,
Matt Cartwright
Inspiring People, Inspiring Business, Inspiring Results 
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