FMD understands the significance of valuing your team

April 2, 2013 - PRLog -- FMD explains that If you’re a business man or the CEO of a company, you know very well that a project or any business campaign is will accomplished if there’s an assigned team to it. However, to be successful in a business campaign, you must know your team.

FMD believes that knowing your team is the first step to success.

Why do you need to know your team? FMD share their reasons, which in turn may help you understand why you need to know your team in order to be successful:

➤ Establish Rapport

As a business man/women, before you start a project or a business campaign, you need to establish rapport to your team. This is by knowing them deeper than the usual employer-employee relationship. This way, you’ll know each member of your team not just by their first names but at the same time their weaknesses and strengths.

➤ Create Your Business Mission and Vision

Establishing rapport is good since you’ll be able to discuss the mission of your business campaign and its vision. This is to make sure that each members of the team are on the same page. You need to fine tune their minds and let them feel that you’re a family, a team designed to accomplish something. From there you can start establishing your goals and how to meet those goals. Develop plans that are useful and based on your missions. You can assess each member and determine who is best for a certain position and who is best for another position; this is to deliver a successful business campaign.

➤ Suggest and Contribute

Once you’ve established rapport and know your team, their tendency is to be more open to you. Your team will be more comfortable to approach you. Because of this comfort feeling, each member would not hesitate to provide suggestions or any brilliant ideas for the success of your campaign. Each member is confident to give their contributions and open to any discussions. You can set strategies and appoint each of them to their designated tasks. This way conflict is avoided and harmonious working relationship is achieved.

➤ Going for the Goals

Once everything is set, your team can now do what is designated. You have to make sure that each member knows what is exactly going on, what are to expect and what the results are. As a team, everyone is involved and needs to know all details; they are important part of the campaign just as you are.

Over the years, exhaustive research has been done on top teams and peak performance. There seem to be given characteristics or qualities of peak performance teams that you can incorporate into your strategy to reach your business goals.

The words “team work” and “team building” are two of the most popular phrases in modern management today.  They are often announced as though they are great discoveries that have only become evident as a result of the speed of change in the last decade of the 20th century.

Taking Action

Virtually every progressive company in the world today is committed to building and maintaining high-quality teams.  Because of the flattening of corporate hierarchies, opportunities for rapid promotion have diminished dramatically and been replaced by the rewards and satisfactions possible from working together in harmony with other people toward the achievement of important goals and objectives.

Team Building through Shared Goals

In the beginning phase of team building, you must ensure that everyone is clear about what the team is expected to accomplish. The goals of the team are shared and discussed by everyone. Each team member gives his or her ideas and input into how the goals and objectives can be best achieved. Each person feels like a part of a larger organisation and strives to reach peak performance.

Top Teams Share Values and Principles

In peak performance teams, there is regular discussion about the values, principles, and behaviours that guide the decisions of the team. The leader encourages values such as honesty, openness, punctuality, responsibility for completing assignments, quality work, and so on. Everyone discusses and agrees on what they are.

Peak Performance Teams Share Plans of Action

In this phase of team building, you go around the table and have each member of the team explain exactly what part of the work he or she is going to accept responsibility for completing. At the end of this discussion, each member knows what every other member is going to be doing and how his or her own work fits in with the work of the team.

Always Lead the Action

There must always be a clear boss or leader in organisation. Democracy is a fine concept, but it goes only so far in business. Someone must be in command and take charge. And that someone is probably you. On a good team, everyone knows who is in charge. The leader sets an example for the others. The leader becomes the role model and can lead the team to peak performance.

Continuous Review and Evaluation

In this final phase of team building the team regularly evaluates its progress from two perspectives. First, is the team getting the results that are expected by its customers or other in the company? In dealing with customers, does the team set up mechanisms to continually ask customers, “how are we doing?”

Bringing the Team Together

One of the most important things you do in building a peak performance organization is to hold regular staff meetings. Bring your people together weekly, at a fixed time, to talk, discuss, catch up on progress, learn how the company is doing, and generally share ideas, opinions, and insights.

At FMD knowing your team is crucial if you want your business campaign to be successful. The important thing is you need to communicate, know everyone, delegate work appropriately and go for your goals as a team. Knowing each team member will definitely help you accomplish everything easily and smoothly. If you will manage to get the right people, your business will surely fire up to success.