Growing Teams
Have you wondered about the key areas you need to consider when your team is growing?
When you think about your leadership and your people and times of change have you thought about where your focus should be?
I recently presented a speech in Brisbane about growing teams and here are my tips.
Firstly, you need to be conscious that during times of growth the team is disturbed. This disturbance can be large and highly unsettling or gentle moving forward.Growing Teams Tip 1
Where is your team focused? You will need to have duel-focus.
Focus One - Find the people in your team who tend to focus on the future and new ideas – access their thinking during time of change and give their ideas airtime.
Focus Two - Assist the people in your team who think about details and getting tasks done. Ensure that during these times of change that they have tasks and roles that they can focus on.
By having these two foci during times of change your team is less likely to be tripped up by new developments because some in your team have their focus on the future and some of your team are focused on getting the existing tasks completed.
Growing Teams Tip 2
How do you map thinking in your team?
There are many analysis tools to be found to help you with this.
At Affectus we use the Big Five, which provides people with an understanding about their personality and areas of strength.
This tool surfaces a number of traits. And two of these traits are openness and conscientiousness.
Finding the people with strong openness assists teams with future focus. And finding people with a drive for conscientiousness helps the team with getting the job done.
Find these people in your team during times of change and ask them to focus their energies in their areas of strength.
Growing Teams Tip 3
Have you thought about the team’s needs?
It is important to think about the business during times of growing. But it is also essential to consider the people in the business.
We all find it hard to consider new ideas when we are feeling uncertain about our job security. Leadership is required in this complex space.
Providing an environment of security during times of growth (which may feel like disruption) will allow for people to remain their most productive selves.
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