With good communication channels and plenty of opportunities to give feedback, you can provide your team with a strong support system. With this, team leaders can develop accountability, trust, and a less hierarchical approach.

 

Here are our six tips for achieving a happier and more productive team via some supportive workflows:

 

- Be transparent

It sounds like a big claim but transparent environments help to develop a feeling of mutual respect between team members and team leaders. Via open and consistent communication, transparent and authentic workplaces help employees to feel secure in their positions.

 

- Keep communicating

The aim is to create an environment in which team leaders feel able to provide honest and constructive feedback, and team members feel confident to voice concerns and communicate with one another.

 

- Provide valuable feedback

Providing feedback to team members is one of the best ways you can support them to develop professionally and personally. This way, you can provide advice on how you feel your team members are progressing and could grow further.

 

- Encourage collaboration

To achieve this, encourage your team members to collaborate. On your team, there will likely be a whole bunch of diverse skills. Make sure these different skillsets are utilized by ensuring everyone is aware of ongoing projects. That way, team members can jump in to collaborate wherever they feel they can bring value.

 

- Trust your team to do their job

Companies hire competent staff for a reason and effective team management shouldn’t mean micro-management. If you’ve hired staff for a specialist area like programming, you need to know when to just leave them to do their job.

 

- Prevent team burn-out

As a team leader, you’re in a great position to set positive boundaries of work, play, and relaxation. This could mean, for example, by not expecting team members to check emails after working hours. Particularly in teams where members work flexibly and might prefer to start early or work late, to save time elsewhere. However, encouraging team members to set themselves some working limits, to sleep well and avoid burn-out, is important.

 

Imagine a team that worked well together, could anticipate each other and could back each other up. A team fully 'in flow'. What economic impact would that have on your business or organization?

 

Talent Dynamics is on a mission to show you where your team's value lies, how it can be unlocked and how you can share it with others to improve job satisfaction, productivity, and most importantly the bottom line.

 

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