MANA Group Fundraising On How To Build A Great Team

NEW YORK - Dec. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- MANA Group Fundraising

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MANA Group Fundraising On How To Build A Great Team

NEW YORK, NY, December 2013 – In order for your company to prosper, you must figure out how to build a team that works well together. That can be a difficult task.  After all, creating a team means bringing together people with different skillsets and varied personalities to work towards a common goal--a complex undertaking.

Here are five ways to approach team-building:

1. Play to Individual Strengths

You need to understand what each individual member's strengths are and put each person in a place to shine. Partner them with someone else who can help shore up their deficiencies.

2. Encourage Transparency

Teams are a lot like families, and you need to let them work things out on their own.  When things start to go awry, bring together those who aren't getting along and make them work through their concerns. Don't let them put you in the middle of a he said/she said situation. Your primary job is to help team members understand each other better. This approach will feel uncomfortable, but if they learn that your go-to strategy is to bring them together to work it out, they will start trying that on their own and will only involve you when absolutely necessary.

3. Establish Ground Rules

Your team needs to know how you like to operate. Are you a solution oriented manager? When issues arise, and they will, don't get caught up in whose fault it is, or why it happened. Take time to do that at an established and appropriate time later. Some managers prefer to do root cause analysis immediately and then move forward from that point with a solution. Everyone's style is different, and it is often based on the type of work you do.  The important thing is that your team knows your preferred work style so everyone is thinking toward that same goal.

4. Let Them Know You Have Their Back

As the leader of a team, your team members must know that you have their back and that you are their greatest supporter. Remove obstacles that are in the team's way and to be there to support them when issues arise with a customer or other internal groups.  When you team members know they have your unconditional support, they can move forward with confidence.

5. Provide an Incentive

Create a goal that your team can work towards--a day off at the end of the quarter, flexibility in their work schedule, or a bonus.  Realize that just as your team members have different skills, they probably respond to different incentives, so rotating through the types of incentives you provide or allowing for flexibility is key to the success of an incentive.

For additional information, contact a member of the MANA Group administration team at pr@managroup.org

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