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Working Toward Huge Success While Managing a Growing Team – Part Two

November 8, 2019 Kevin Kenealy managing a growing team Comments Off on Working Toward Huge Success While Managing a Growing Team – Part Two

New Team Member Communication

New
team members need to be fully informed of the main objectives of the business
as well as the target market. Explaining these fully to your employees will
give them more confidence in their view of the company and enable them to help
drive the team towards the desired results. Newcomers need to be informed of
the current tasks being tackled as well as what’s in mind for the future. Your
primary investment is by far your people, even professionals agree that quality
comes directly from full awareness of the big picture. Including them in the
building of the future of the company gives them a feeling of importance as
well as a shared responsibility to accomplish company goals within the team.

Be
realistic about your resources. Another large contributing factor to the
success of your business is being one step ahead of any obstacles. A great way
to do this is to anticipate any potential shortcomings in staff and start
holding interviews for additional candidates before there are any gaps in the
scheduling needed to keep your business running smoothly. Tackling a stack of
resumes can be daunting, but luckily that’s not the only way to approach
maintaining a full, competent staff. Many people have skills they don’t think
to list due to lack of professional experience or the fact they aren’t aware of
how valuable it can be to the team. Unique skills along with social
compatibility are equally important when creating a highly efficient team.
Trail-periods are a good way to see how potential teammates interact with each
other and how they behave in a routine type of situation. It is easy to put on
a good face for an interview, but just know the will spend much more time
overall at their desk and in the breakroom around other employees. An
individual is important at the selection level when they get hired by your company,
however making sure you keep your existing team as a priority of yours is a way
to keep harmony in the workplace, which will further drive your business
towards success.

Summing it Up

In a
nutshell, all blooming businesses need to anticipate random needs for team
growth and future milestones. Not every transition will come easily, managing
the obstacles with a few precautionary steps like the ones we just discussed
will ease the journey.


Working Toward Huge Success While Managing a Growing Team – Part One

November 7, 2019 Kevin Kenealy managing a growing team Comments Off on Working Toward Huge Success While Managing a Growing Team – Part One
managing a growing team

All businesses tend to start with small teams, and with a level of success, growth is inevitable. With that, there will be many changes, including team expansion. As much as we all want to succeed, sometimes growth can happen too quickly, which may leave a bumpy road to any necessary restructuring to help the team adapt to altered processes that will help support the business. Here’s a few tips to help you manage a quickly growing team. 

Starting a new job can be stressful for employees, with the pressure to meet expectations, communicate with existing co-workers, and prove their skills on top of being in a completely new environment, adaptation is a must. If you manage a growing team, it is important to make sure your new recruits are not only competent, but able to utilize their individual skills to help compliment the team. It is important to encourage them to use their abilities and show them their potential from the start. When everyone fully understands their expected position and tasks, your business will run much more smoothly. To achieve this, it is crucial to define their place on the team, provide a detailed description of the expectations of their role, and allow for any communication to clarify anything not fully understood. When all of this is in place, it gives the new employee confidence in starting their position which will help them blend into your existing team as well as prevent avoidable misunderstandings or lapses in productivity.

Meetings can be a real drag on both ends, but they are unavoidable when it comes to the success of teams, especially when they are growing. The ultimate reasoning behind this is because it gives everyone a chance to coordinate with each other and confirm deadlines. It also gives a feeling of being a part of a whole unit as opposed to a group of individuals working separately. Regular daily meetings can really bring the team together and help boost morale. Having multiple meetings with different teams within the unit can serve as a super binding factor within those groups. It may prove time consuming or a bit of an extra expense if you provide food (which the employees will always appreciate), but it is well worth the effort. 

Communication and management tools are must-haves. Handling more than two employees at a time means you cannot watch them closely to observe and adjust your focus to make each one as highly productive as possible. It is important to know what results they get from what work styles they are implementing. That is why it is paramount to put some existing tools to use so you can make better calls when it comes to handling ever expanding groups. For instance, timekeeping tools are a great resource that allows you to view how much time is actually spent on specific tasks and projects, so it is good at help with planning and observing accountability of each team member. Without the requirement of needing to scope out the work of each individual employee personally, it will be much easier to bring more people on board without feeling overwhelmed.


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