David Summerton Business Consulting
Five Tips For Better Teamwork We all want the teams that we manage to be effective, efficient and high-performing, but often the reality of life means that this is not the case. The golden rule of managing a team is that their success is your success BUT their failure is also your failure, so you …
What Strong Teams Look Like strong leadership – the manager cares and is keen to develop/support working relationships within the team leading by example – e.g. excellent attendance and time-keeping; effective communication; being reliable and approachable; being open, fair and cooperative having clear methods of communication – e.g. so that team members can discuss and …
Why Organisations Need Cross-Team Working Bringing teams together to achieve complex and business-critical outcomes is an essential part of a manager’s job. This challenge can be a difficult and energy-sapping process but will be made easier by using the following pointers: Make sure that there is a shared purpose and capacity to achieve complex and …
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Team Problems And How To Solve Them Problems that can occur within a team can be caused by, for example: loss of team members – e.g. popular members with valuable skills and experience new team members who upset the balance – e.g. an imbalance within the Belbin team roles; due to inexperience poor leadership – …
How Effective Is Your Team – Key Questions If there are any doubts in your mind regarding the purpose and functioning of your team you need to consider asking the following questions and then considering the answers before moving forward: Who is my team trying to beat? What is competition like with other teams? Are …
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Five Essential Team Competencies There are a number of key competencies to make up an effective team. Those operating within the team should display the following five competencies: Goal Setting and Performance Management: Team members must have the ability to establish and execute specific and challenging objectives in addition to monitoring and evaluating performance towards …
How To Get The Most From Your Staff If things seem a little stale or lacking in passion in the workplace or amongst the team have a look at the following pointers to see if you can get an extra boost from your people. Staff are motivated by recognition: always provide as much positive feedback …
How Can I Assess My Team Members? Having and effective and efficient Team is not a gift, it does not happen purely by accident, there is no Divine Right to have an effective Team and the formation of the Team does not happen overnight – it takes real persistence and drive from the manager to …
10 Ways To Assess Your Team Members Having and effective and efficient Team is not a gift, it does not happen purely by accident, there is no Divine Right to have an effective Team and the formation of the Team does not happen overnight – it takes real persistence and drive from the manager to …
How to Be A Good Team Player Make sure that you fully maximise your contribution! Using teams are essential in completing projects bit this carries with is a significant degree of risk: are all of the team fully behind the project and if you are managing the team what skills would you want to see …
