The new era of team building
The new era of team building
COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY
One of the most crucial parts of your business is to build a great team.
How do build an amazing and motivated team in the dynamic of today’s challenges?
How do build the needed trust between employees in the team?
How do build the needed trust between the teams to work together to reach the company’s targets and vision?
How to create a supportive environment in the workplace?
Why is so important?
- Bad communication could create a toxic environment and unnecessary stress.
- Bad communication can destroy your team.
- Lack of communication can affect the execution of the teams’ work and your business activities. This could cause delays, and have bad effects on the quality of your products and services.
- Bad communication or lack of it could lead to bad management and teams decisions.
What are the characteristics of effective communication?
- Timely – If employees don`t communicate the information with your team on time this could cause a lot of delays and could be critical for the team`s and even the company`s work.
- Clear – if employees and the management don`t send a clear message and communicate clearly there is a big risk of misunderstanding and low performance.
- Open – share the needed information to support the team and have a better understanding of what, how, and why they have to perform the work. Be open to feedback from your teammates or other teams and try to understand their point of view or the challenginges they are facing.
- Kindness – be kind and show genuine care for others.
One of the challenges is: How to make sure that what we are saying and our message would be heard and taken into account?
As a Site financial controller, I was assigned to the responsible person (acting as Site financial director) on an Internal control survey. The survey was big with a lot of questions and information to be uploaded, including all the activities and management on the Site. I had to control the process, support, explain and make sure that each of the participants/ responsible managers for the implementation of the internal rules in their teams. The interesting and challenging part was how to motivate and keep accountable employees on a higher level in the organization chart to perform the required work while having a lot of work and stress on their shoulders to meet the targets of the project?
Here is how:
- Great team of professionals – without the team it would be difficult to complete a survey that is not in your area of work.
- Smile – the smile not only opens doors but has the ability to pass through walls. When approaching the person brings positive energy to the room.
- Kindness and understanding- genuine care. Try to understand the other point of view and their situation, and offer help or support. Sometimes people have a lot of stress or work on their shoulders and if you add more stress definitely won`t help to meet the targets together.
- Appreciation of the other person’s time – short and effective meetings with prepared variants of actions will save you time but stay open also to other proposals as well.
- Flexibility – give room for different ways or time targets and follow the progress to be able to perform the work in the most suitable way for the team members.
- Support – be there to support the team with information, explanation, technical support, and any proper or applicable support you can perform.
The results?
Our project was in first place in the completion of the survey made on all company`s projects around the world. It was a difficult time for all the team facing a delay at that time but together we made it to the top of this assignment.
