Leadership: Building A Great Team by Dr. Catrina Pullum
Over the past few weeks, I have been asked by entrepreneurs and business leaders to provide training on to build a great team. How do leaders create and sustain change? What style of leadership is needed to motivate people to undertake change? A leader provides resources and rewards in exchange for motivation, productivity, effective goals, or task accomplishments. An effective leader can get their team members to change and to lead change. This type of leadership
empowers employees to make a difference.
As organizations demand more from their work forces, they are finding that the old tried
and true methods of staying late and working longer aren’t working. Instead, this is creating an energy drain on the employees, which is being seen as the cause of lower productivity. This is due to the employees being exhausted, disengaged, and stressed out to the point of becoming ill. Employers should develop practices to help employees renew four different aspects of their personal energy: physical energy, emotionally energy, mental energy, and spiritual energy. By helping their employees build habits to renew those aspects of energy usage, it opens the door to increase overall productivity for the employee.
A good business owner can also implement strategies to save poor performing employees
from well-meaning managers. What could be happening when poor performers fail to improve? Sometimes it is the manager, unintentionally setting the employee up to fail. A failure on the employee’s part leads to micromanagement on the manager’s part, which causes the employee to doubt himself and shy away from decision-making, leading the manager to trust the employee less and micromanage more beginning a death spiral. You might call this the “set-up- to-fail syndrome”. You ultimately wind up with an overworked manager, and usually a lost employee. It does not have to be fatal; it can be reversed with a simple course of treatment. The primary treatment being to change the communication dynamic between the manager and the employee to help restore trust.
To build a great team, a leader must understand how to create the experience of team
building to develop an effective team. To do this, your team must: Be Innovative; Be Collaborative; Communicate Effectively; Be Organized; Have a Robust Work Ethic; & Promote Diversity on the team. Innovative thinking involves risk, so you and your employees must demonstrate the courage to thrive. Your team members should encourage each other to be successful and build on one another's accomplishments. A diverse team allows more perspectives and introduces new and unique ideas. Having a diverse team enhances creativity and group problem solving.
As a leader, my team and I quote one of our favorite Lady General Facts (KC Fox, The Lady General Foundation), "No Woman Is Greater Than Her Team".
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