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Ten Top Tips for Team Leaders

Volume I, #1

1. Focus on results.

Focus your attention and the efforts of the Team on the outcomes to be achieved. Don’t get caught up in work for the sake of the work if it doesn’t help achieve your results. All your team goals need to be clearly documented, known by all the Team and committed to by the Team. Review the goals you are trying to achieve on at least a weekly basis and make regular corrections to actions to ensure you achieve these goals.

2. Optimise performance

As a Team Leader you must constantly look to optimise the performance of your Team. Ask how you and your Team can achieve more for less effort, less cost and in less time.

3. Use the skills within the Team

Make sure that you draw upon the skills and knowledge within the Team. Don’t try to do everything yourself. Your role is to guide and lead the Team using all of their skills in the best way possible.

4. Motivate and encourage participation

Motivate your Team by being very clear and positive in terms of what you expect to achieve. Encourage participation and praise people’s performance wherever justified.

5. Develop ownership in Team members

Involve Team members in the planning process so that they have a sense of ownership of the project and particularly of their role in the project. Make sure everyone feels special about the role they perform. Your role as a Leader is to develop this ownership and a strong sense of commitment in the Team members.

6. Implement excellent communications systems

Make sure your Team works effectively by having excellent communications systems in place. Everyone needs to know what their roles and responsibilities are. In a rapidly changing environment, rapid communication is important to keep everyone up to speed. Develop and use communication systems that work well for your team. Record important information and decisions in writing so they can be referred back to and are not misunderstood. Make sure that feedback is used rather than a simple one-way flow of communication.

7. Develop good working systems

Develop good working systems such as record keeping, storage and retrieval of information, use of computer based systems. Having effective systems of working will save you time in the long run.

8. Encourage learning and development in Team members

Encourage Team members to learn and develop their skills through the project work. This will result in better performance and is also highly motivating.

9. Raise the standards

Constantly look to raise the standards of the level of work that the Team is doing. As a Leader, you must constantly seek to raise the level of performance of your Team.

10. Leverage the results

When you achieve a positive result in one area, examine whether you can leverage this result in other areas to achieve even more.

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