Vartika Kashyap
A good team isn’t build in a fortnight. I still remember the days when my company was in the initial stages of its inception. Those were the times when I myself use to work tirelessly to get positive results. As my company took off the first flight to success, we started growing and hiring people.
Happy employees lead to satisfied customers. If you keep your employees happy at work and make them feel valued you will reap the benefits in the form of happy customers. Also, this will boost your customer retention rate.
But, this is possible only if you shift your focus from individual accomplishments to team success. This is the first thing I did, I shifted my focus from solely individual gains to collective success. That’s the point I started building up a collaborated team.
Many business owners have the notion that a tough and strict office environment is the only way to get the work done from the employees. But this is not the real case.
Yes, you can get results by creating work pressure over employees, but you definitely can’t build a strong team with that. For fostering team collaboration, you will have to build a creative atmosphere in your office which gives your team members a good opportunity to make the best of their skills and abilities. A creative atmosphere also imparts a sense of personal growth and learning amongst your team.
One of the most important leadership qualities is to be able to involve your employees while setting quarterly goals, planning a team lunch or designing a new company policy.
Facilitate a smooth communication bridge between the employees and the company. In fact, at times it has been seen that when people work together as a team, they find better ways to handle a project or goals. A collaborated team can overcome even the biggest hurdles.
Recall the school days when birthday celebrations and picnics fostered friendships and build bondings which study hours could never do. The same applies here as well. Team lunches, random weekend celebrations, and get togethers can build strong bonding among the employees.
t is obvious that deadlines and big goals will lead to stress and anxiety in your employees. Flexible work policies and organizing parties would not alone be able to beat that. Meetings, project goals, and personal goals create a lot of clutter in the minds of everyone including your employees. Just as we need dental and physical hygiene, so do we need mental hygiene.
The most important part of team collaboration is defining roles and responsibilities within the team. This will promote purposeful collaboration where resources are dedicated to a common goal.
