The greatest leverage any business owner, manager or leader can effect is that of bringing about the cohesiveness of their team. Although it is perceived as one of the most difficult challenges managers face, it also represents the greatest untapped potential for lower operating costs, higher profit margins and happier employees, all resulting in more satisfied customers and more time for you to spend with friends and loved ones.
Following these simple ten steps will help you bring your team together to achieve your mission and vision as their manager and leader.
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Are you a leader or a want to be? If you are in charge of a group of people then you should want to be an above average knowledgeable guide for them. Working hard every day to expose your abilities so they can be improved upon. Looking for ways to excel in areas that you’re weak in.
Always pushing yourself above and beyond your limitations and then desiring for more. Listed below are some interesting divided concerns to help you stick with the program and help you progress along.
Employee Retention - Getting to the Core of the Problem
Employee motivation, Human Resources, Leadership, Team Building No Comments »Employee retention is a serious problem facing many companies. When your business is constantly facing employee turnover, your business can suffer tremendously. You may not have enough people to service your customers or attend to tasks, or the constant changes may lead to serious problems with employee morale. If you are facing a retention issue within your company, it is imperative that you find the root of the problem and take the necessary
Exit Interviews
Conducting exit interviews is a great way to gauge employee satisfaction with your company and find out exactly what is driving people away from your business. Many times, employees are more open with their problems when they know that they are leaving. Exit interviews can be very revealing about what is going on in your business, behind the scenes.
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Leadership and Team Building - Preparing a Program
Business Management, Employee motivation, Leadership, Management, Team Building No Comments »Leadership and team building are two of the biggest factors in the success of a company. Developing a program that will help your employees to learn leadership skills, while giving them the tools they need to build a stronger team.
While building your team and developing leadership skills can be done organically through on the job training, having a specific program that is offered to all employees can be a more cost effective way to grow your business.
When developing a leadership and team building program for your company, you want to first set the goals that you wish to achieve through the program. Though naturally you want to help your employees to grow and develop, you need to find a focus for the program.
Fear Speaking in Public? - The Best Way to Kill It
Presentations/Public Speaking, Training No Comments »A lot of individuals have fear speaking in public. They would rather die than caught them standing in front of a large crowd and delivering their speech. Well, this fact is already not unusual. According to statistics 90% of the population suffers such disorder. This trend is totally stressful since public speaking is important nowadays. It provides you an edge over the rest as well as save you from the stiff competition of employment.
Public speaking can really be a tough job, if not a cause of embarrassment, not only happening to regular individuals, but even to top scholars, doctors, businessmen and a lot more. They may have inhibitions in looking at their audience, normally go with excessive palm sweating, stuttering and the tip-of-the-tongue experience.
How do you create change in the organization when your boss doesn’t help you move your ideas up the chain of command?
This is a common complaint voiced by frontline departments, project teams, and just about any other group that needs the approval of somebody up the chain of command prior to taking action. By the way, this ends up being just about everyone.
Frustration stems from the perception that nobody is listening to you. This is a problem because many of us equate listening with respect.
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The Reason Why Our Leadership Training is Failing
Business communication, Leadership, Management No Comments »Training for the technical parts of jobs is easy. But training people to be flexible, develop empathy, to have interpersonal skills and be conscientious is much more difficult.
Training in industry has ignored these differences and generally used the same methods for both the technical information and emotional competence.
Cognitive abilities are based in one part of the brain and social and emotional competence is based in another part of the brain. When we learn technical information we use the neocortex. This operates as a distribution and storage center for information.
It has been said that if you don’t know the difference between a manager and a leader, you are probably a manager. Transforming a manager to become a leader is a long and careful process. The skills in managing finance and inventory are different to the skills needed to lead people, either as individuals or teams.
The skills required in leadership are often confused with the cognitive (knowledge) side of a job. Training in leadership requires a totally different approach than training in, say, supply chain management.
A well-functioning team must have strong and constant communication. Communication comes in many forms including written, verbal, and both inter-office and intra-office e-mail. In order for the team to be highly efficient, communication among the members of the team needs to be tracked to keep the team members accountable for their assigned tasks. In the tracking process, both the receiver and the sender create a record of the task.
There are four keys that you and your office can use to help the flow of information throughout the office: regular staff meetings, request forms, listing out questions, and being aggressive.
You are a leader, not a manager - there is a difference.
Team Working - What Stops Teams From Working Effectively?
Business Management, Leadership No Comments »When teams get to performing there is no doubting the value and benefit that they bring. Sometimes however, teams just do not work effectively.
So what stops teams from working effectively?
Fuzzy goals or objectives
If a team does not know with absolute clarity what it is to deliver, chances are that at best it will deliver something of little value or at worst nothing at all. Don’t compromise the ability of the team by leaving it to try and finger out what it is to deliver. Make it crystal clear.
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