Building and developing skills to support business growth

As you are building your team(s) it's important to have a clear goal for what you want to achieve. At a high level, it should all be based around building a high performing team. If that is not your goal, I would highly recommend you start thinking about it now.

You as a manager / leader should be continually looking to improve performance, not only on a team member perspective but also as an overall team.

Generally what I see is that this is not a high priority as people are always too busy managing up the chain.. and my answer to that is..

If you are too busy to improve, you will always be too busy!

Improving performance and effectiveness always requires extra lift in the beginning, however the benefit (or goal) should be that it will release capacity long term so you can add more value with the same resourcing, that is more bang for your buck.

In previous videos you would have learnt about a number of different ways to achieve this for example

• Putting your team members in strength based roles
• Treating them with respect
• Giving them autonomy
• And should they make a mistake, coach and mentor them so they can become better decision makers in the future

These are all great ways to improve them, however one of the fundamental principles behind all of these is actually getting them involved. At the end of the day, they are the subject matter experts so doesn't it make sense to include them?

As when you and when these ideas turn into actual process improvements, what do you think is going to happen?

• Achieve great buy in from the team as it was their idea
• They will do everything in their power to make it work
• Encourage more ideas to come from the team
• Create stronger and more trusting relationships
• Therefore stronger teams

In this video I tell a story of one of those amazing ideas that made such a difference to the team and the best thing about it, it can be applied anywhere!!