Team leaders know that the attitude they bring to work sets the tone for team culture. Whether you lead five people or five hundred people, the principles for success are the same: build a strong team, establish clear goals, and use collaboration to increase productivity.

Build a strong team

Today’s business world is more complex than ever before. With globalization, artificial intelligence, and the rise of remote work, team dynamics need to be rock solid in order for success to happen.

This starts with selecting people who are the right fit for the job and the culture. But it also includes synergizing the strengths and constraints of the team members you already have. In order to do that, you need to be aware of what those strengths and constraints are.

While self-reported traits can be helpful, a formal assessment is more telling. Consider a third party product or service that can help you get a clear picture of your team members. Be sure it includes a 360-degree feedback component for the most accurate and comprehensive analysis.

Establish clear goals

Once you have a good handle on your team’s individual and collective strengths and constraints, you are better equipped to lay out goals.

While overarching team goals are important, it is most helpful to also assign individual goals. These goals should not only pertain to achievements and productivity markers, but to behavioral and interpersonal skills.

If you participate in some sort of formal team dynamics assessment, make sure that there is ongoing accountability to put what you learned into practice. Otherwise, you’ll simply have identified traits for people to ponder on their own.

Use collaboration to increase productivity

Research shows that improved team dynamics will lead to increased team productivity. If you’re worried that human capital investments won’t pay off, take the time to calculate your Return on Investment (ROI) carefully.

As you weigh your options, know that experts see team dynamic work as crucial to success. According to Forbes, collaboration supports productivity in part because it helps prevent siloed work. Siloed work–the extreme separation of roles and responsibilities among team members–leads to lots of wasted time. Employees don’t have access to the knowledge they need to get their tasks done as efficiently and thoroughly as possible.

In addition, Salesforce reports that 86% of executives link business failure to a lack of collaboration and communication. It’s no stretch to apply this to a team of any level within an organization. Empowered, self-aware people get more done, and also share their good ideas with one another, leading to better outcomes overall.

Team Leader Foundations

If you lead a team that could use improvement in these areas, the Teamalytics Team Leader Foundations program may be just the catalyst you need to unlock your team’s full potential. Based on thirty years of experience working with executives, the Team Leader Foundations program brings practical tools, actionable insights, and best-practice frameworks to leaders of any level.

This self-guided, online platform shepherds users through an eight-session team dynamics workshop to improve collaboration. In addition, expert coaches provide four one-on-one coaching sessions to participants and facilitate three online group sessions with a cohort of business leadership peers.

Teamalytics operates on a foundation of data and proprietary analytics, ensuring that the content you and your team engage with is effective and current. Behavioral science is at the core of all Teamalytics programs and is now available to benefit teams of all levels.

To learn more about the Team Leader Foundations program, reach out today