- Ensure everyone on the team understands the overall purpose, goals and values of your team. Not only should they clearly understand and support you team mandate they should agree on the approach to achieve them.
- Establish and communicate clear team procedures.
- Make sure your team members possess, or have access to, the skills necessary to complete your teams’ objectives by offering the best training.
- Establish and maintain a team code of conduct with your team members in order to set behavioral norms and encourage healthy and successful relationships among the team.
- Create an on-going team gathering, meeting, or team building to establish individual goals, set roles and responsibilities, offer tools and techniques to resolve issues and to encourage team members to be accountable.
- Continually improve the team by demonstrating trust, respect and support for all team members.
- Communicating openly and often about all issue, whether positive or negative is also key.
- Keep all commitments to one another and take all commitments seriously whether it’s to return a phone call or attend a meeting. Your commitment is your bond.
- Edify one another and do not disclose team concerns or shared information outside the team.
- Distinguish between what requires a decision versus what is only an information exchange.
- Preview agendas and information by emailing them out prior to actual event that so attendees have time to consider topics and prepare any questions to share.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Internet Marketing and Business: Creating the Best Team
Successful teamwork, regardless of your business, requires building trust within each one on one relationship.
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