6 Keys To A Winning Team Part 1

6 Keys To A Winning Team Part 2

6 Keys To A Winning Team Part 3

Now I want to share how to put it all together in a Systematic Way..

Supporting the team with tools, training, technology, and systems is important for a number of reasons, and one of the most compelling reasons is that this ensures that the owner or entrepreneur can run the business without being run by the business. Working ON your business is liberating, whilst only working IN your business is restraining. Being physically present on a day-to-day basis reduces the leader, owner, and entrepreneur to the role of the head employee - and allows the business to become the owner's merciless taskmaster.

Learn to operate the business from a distance, so that it begins to make money as a separate and independent entity, and then duplicate the process to make unlimited amounts of money. Henry Ford made a profit building and selling the first automobiles, but he became one of the wealthiest men in the world and one of the most successful and legendary entrepreneurs in history by figuring out a system that produced, marketed, and sold cars for him.

Systems enable us to be free to do whatever we want, whether that means retirement to the golf course, investment in other satisfying ventures, or creation of new dynamic teams. Becoming a master of systems is the shortcut to mastery of one's career destiny, and learning to build teams is the first step in creating any system that involves human resources. As the man said so wisely and succinctly, There is No I in T.E.A.M, which means Together Everyone Achieves More."

Get Clarity....

Clarity around what you want them to do and what it means to be successful: You need to know what activities you want the team member to accomplish as well as a strong definition (KPI) of what is means for them to be successful. Knowing this from the start will allow you to get the team off on the right foot.

Clarity around your vision, purpose and values and have them so well defined that every team member understands the culture of the organization they are part of or are joining.  Share with them how you would like them to grow in their role so that they can make decisions, for the better of the business, based on the guidelines that you have established. This will free up a TON of your time.

Clarity around what this will mean for you: As your team takes over some of the roles and responsibilities in your business, your time will be freed up and you will be tempted to micromanage. RESIST IT! Micromanaging people will drive off the team members you need and keep the ones that will wait for you to make all decisions (increasing your time in the business).

Clarity around your leadership. Regardless of the leadership style, every successful leader must exhibit the qualities of passion and responsibility and take a vested personal interest in those who look to them for guidance, growth, decisions, and development.

Another important element is the "the window and the mirror" concept to both protect and energize the leader's team. When things were going well, Great leaders look out the "window" and credit their team for the success; when things are going poorly they look in the "mirror" and take the responsibility for poor performance.

In his book, "The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team," Patrick Lencioni describes the five areas in which a team can go wrong:

1.Absence of trust

2.Fear and conflict

3.Lack of commitment

4.Avoidance of accountability

5.Inattention to results

The underlying factor in all of these is actually the first dysfunction, the lack of trust. Only when a team has implicit trust in each other and their leader will they perform to their maximum capacity.

Remember learning and applying are two different things. Why not come along to our sponsored complementary Team building and Recruitment Work shop this Friday and learn how to apply team building strategies. Details below.