Self Management in Business - Creating Multi Skilled Teams

April 15, 2010 - PRLog -- In today's competitive world, self-management in business is absolutely essential. There are many companies who have self-management teams. This team is a set of permanent employees, who are responsible for the production of a product or service, right from inception, to delivery, to after sales. Especially, the service industry needs this kind of team where there are innovator, influential, and organizer talent.

Basis of Forming Self Managed Teams

In such teams, grouping is done in such a way that workers are related to each other through task performance and task interdependence. Self management in business is achieved by way of creating these autonomous teams, where each member is motivated by himself/herself. For example, if you take a small IT company of less than 50 people serving IT solutions to giants industries, then this company cannot be categorized into levels. You cannot designate them as one HR, one director, one quality tester etc., instead, they are all multi-specialist who work together to find solutions to complicated problems.

In the practice of self management in business, a group of talents is given a specific task and basic guidelines on how to get it done. This motivates all the members of the team to present their own idea, get feedback and learn to appreciate other people's idea. They are all structured to manage and coordinate their own activities. They make many strategic decisions, day-to-day decisions on their own, what traditionally would have been done by their manager.

The people in these self managed teams are multi-talented and have a wider range of operative skills. They discuss it among themselves and then finalize the method of work, planning, scheduling and controlling of work. They tend to distribute task amongst themselves according to their individual skills. They improve their working method on their own.

Leading The Self Managed Teams

If you are in the process of leading self management in business at your workplace, then you need to follow some simple steps as follows:

1. You will have to move back and forth in the organization and the teams to build relationships

2. You must scout for the necessary information and provide it to the teams to build further plans

3. You now have to persuade the teams and outside constituents to support one another

4. Next, you have to empower the team members to make day-to-day as well as strategic decisions on their own. For this, they need to build trust amongst themselves and have self motivation to achieve goals.

Self management in business is a collective effort, which requires contribution of all those in the team. The team members must have the relevant information available, based on what they can evaluate their results. They are a multi-talented group, which is responsible for a certain task, right from beginning to end.

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