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Team Management Skills: The Core Skills Needed to Manage Your Team
Developing Your Team
Teams are made up of individuals who have different outlooks and abilities, and are at different stages of their careers. Some may be challenged by the tasks you assign and need help while others may be unchallenged, and may be looking for opportunities to stretch their skills.
It's your responsibility to develop all of your people and doing so makes you a manager people aspire to work for. The most effective way of developing your people is to ensure that you give regular feedback to members of your team.
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Probe Work That Seems Ok
If the work is reported to be ok or fine by your subordinates, maybe you need to dig in deep and probe more.
The employee reporting to you may be struggling and not providing the true detail...
Strategize Around Strengths
It pays to highlight the strength an employee brings and then to work on minimizing the weak aspects. Start and work with the impact and value the employee is making to your team.
Define Ownership
Ownership and accountability need to be defined so that your team knows who is responsible for what.
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Why setting expectations is critical
One of the top reasons for unhappiness in the workplace is communication issues with one’s manager/supervisor.
Managers tend to make incorrect assumptions that employees have al...
Work
It’s crucial for your team to know exactly what is expected of them.
The unwritten rules about the level of quality expected in the work, and the depth of knowledge that needs to be displayed, are what defines a successful work project.
What are the boundaries of an employee’s responsibilities? What are and what aren’t the roles of the job?
Communication
What’s the preferred way of communicating, both formally and informally? What should be the frequency of communication? What are the protocols for communication at different levels – while reporting to the manager or even upper management?
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Delegation method and staff experience
- For new and inexperienced in the job staff - use a directive delegation style (Tell exactly what you want them to do).
- For staff that has experience ...
Question to consider when before delegating
- Who can do this job instead of you?
- Who can do this job better than me?
- Who can do this job at a lower cost than me?
- Can this activity be eliminated altogether?
For an effective delegation...
- Match the Person to the Job: never delegate an important task to a person who has not performed that task satisfactorily in the past.
- Agree on what is to be Done.
- Explain How the Job Should Be Done: Explain your preferred approach or method of working.
- Have Him Feed It Back: the only way that you can be sure that the other person actually understands the job or assignment
- Set a Deadline.
- Manage By Exception.