Empowering your staff 

This ezine takes you through tips and techniques to begin empowering yourself and your staff 



Last Issue:  Creating high performing teams   Jun 11th, 2011

This is my first edition of an ezine.I want staff to understand and feel the emotions behind operating in a high performing team.By helping staff in organisations through articles,... 

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creating high performing teams

1. Release your leaders to think, rather than wander

Leaders need to lead. They need to take you on a journey with them.  They  need to spend time building the team, building individuals to their strengths towards the goal of the organisation.  Leaders should not be left to wander. Definition of wander: “move about aimlessly or without any destination” When leaders begin to wander, the vision of the team dissipates into operational issues, people issues, risk & fraud issues.  Leaders are putting out fires, are present in all meetings and the set direction of the team takes a back seat.  Can anyone actually remember what happened in that awesome strategy workshop that the team just held a few weeks ago?  A team needs a focussed leader to motivate, guide and direct the team and individuals in the right direction.

Call to action: look for opportunities in your leaders’ space.  Offer to ease the load of work for your leader.  Set up a meeting, pointing out your strengths and ask your leader if you can take over from him / her that which energises you and frees them up.

2. Learn to do what it takes

To create a high performing team in the organisation, everyone needs to engage and participate.  Team members need to learn to stick up for each other, cover, and help no matter the cost.  Why would you not want to be part of a high performing team?  Your pride, your name is at stake here.  Go the extra mile.

Call to action: be proud of who you are and what you can accomplish. Translate your passion and energy for success into the team.  Do what you can to make a success for yourself, your team and your leader.  Look for innovative ways to accomplish your job to lessen your load, for example, learn your job – what can be automated, what tasks am I doing that are unnecessary.  Give tasks that you can no longer handle away, offer to assist team members that you can see are not coping.

3. Be the best you can be

Strive to out perform your last task.  Your sense of pride and accomplishment will push you further and you will see results in your outputs – outputs you were happy to achieve and to be apart of.  This is the way you will achieve the most out of your working day.

Call to action: do not concern yourself with the wrongs and rights of who you are.  Understand your strengths, understand your weaknesses.  Your strengths are another team members weaknesses, and their strengths are your weaknesses.  Work on and develop your strengths, and if possible, outsource your weaknesses.  Although some weaknesses will still need to be completed by you.  BUT, take time understand your weaknesses and how in a day to best work through them. This will then enable you to spend the rest of the day on the things you love, that energise you, that allow you to be the best you can be.

4. Be easy to get on with

No-one wants to be around someone who drains them of their energy.  People want to be around people that are energising and uplifting – even in everyday conversation.  Be energising and positive.

Call to action: get yourself a motto, a motivational sentence something that when you wake up in the morning, is the first thing you say to yourself.  This will allow you to start your day on a positive note, which will translate into the rest of the team.  Respect individuals.  Offer to listen, rather than just talk.  Greet your team members – daily.

5. Listen & not just hear

Are you listening to what the other team members are saying? Or are you already formulating an answer to respond to their comments?  Do you understand your team members’ point of view or have you based an opinion based onwho they are?

Call to action: effective communication skills encompass talking and listening. Repeat what you understand from the message spoken.  Try one conversation a day where you listen and you assist your team member in finding the answer by themselves simply by listening and inviting them to speak, offering a guiding question once a while “what would you do in this type of situation?”, “why do think…?” etc



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