How To Motivate And Put Together A Winning Team
The first step to better result is to get a winning team in place. Today we will see how we can go about this. Keep these essentials in mind when motivating your team.
1. YOU WILL NEED A MODEL
Workplace teams are different from sports teams so someone has to show you what to do. As a first step, I would start by sharing with all your managers successful examples and case studies. it is also good idea to develop your team through effective training where they will learn basic communication skill as well as strategies for setting up good teams.
2. DELEGATE FOR BETTER RESULTS
They don’t just bring employees within the department together for a weekly meeting just to pass on information or listen to complaints and excuses. Instead, even worker teams at the project level should be asked to identify problems, including the costs associated with them. They then should be empowered to solve those problems.
3. ENCOURAGE TEAM INTERACTION
Many of the successes team-oriented workplaces have seen come because they bring together groups of workers who never before talked. For example, technical/project management and customer service teams frequently are at odds with each other; Customer service wants the product out as soon as possible but project management has multiple deadlines to meet and doesn’t want to give poor service to anyone. However, by bringing the two groups together to solve a problem, they will agree on the results and both sides will feel as though the other understands what their concern are.
4.TEAMS CAN GET STALE
The whole idea of teamwork is to bring together people with different areas of expertise to address a specific problem. As a result, teams should be formed and disbanded as needed. When a person or group identifies a problem, teams are formed by gathering employees with the necessary information to help solve it. when one task is complete, the team ends, new problems are identified and new teams are formed.
5. YOU MUST PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR TEAM
To be effective, teams need access to key functions and services such as varied technical skills and processes, customer service, marketing, HR as well as continuing management and technical education via consultants. They will need money to conduct studies such as comparison of two processes or benchmarking process with other companies.
6. DEAL WITH DIFFICULT CO-WORKER
we all have people in our lives that we don’t like but we can’t ignore. We also know the toll these relationships take on our own mental - and sometimes even physical- health. You dread having to be in the same room with him/her. Your heart rate start to skyrocket at the mere through of having conversation with him/her. Worse yet, you spend hours of precious time you could be working just dealing with the bad feelings. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to like everyone you come into contact with, but you can make the relationship easier on yourself by following a few key communication tactics.
BEGIN IN A FRIENDLY WAY
You’ll realise a huge difference when you make a conscious effort to smile at your co-worker and ask him a non work question, such as how his family is doing or what he thought about the local football team’s latest game
SHOW RESPECT FOR THE OTHER PERSON’S OPINION
Never tell the person he or she is wrong. This can be especially difficult, especially if the person is antagonistic or poorly informed. However, we’ve found that it often doesn’t take long for a difficult person become more easy- going once he’s truly being listened to.
SEE THE THINGS FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE
Again, this can be a challenge when you’re convinced that the other person is coming from a completely alien mindset. Yet, with a little practice, you can begin giving people the benefit of the doubt and start see why they might feel that way.
GIVE HONEST AND SINCERE APPRECIATION
Remember: ‘ if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.’ It may seen quaint, but it works, especially when you’re in a contentious realtionship.
Of course, there will still be tense moments, but you and your co -worker will be able to handle them as professionals, instead of letting your emotions get in the way. The higher you are in your organizations, the more important it is to work in teams and know how to deal with people. As you learn to successfully manage your inter-personal relationships at work, you will have a definite leg up on many of your peers.
- Originally written by Pallavi Jha and published in Bangalore Mirror.