Team Success Equals Management Success

Want to add to your success as a manager?….create ongoing team success!

One of the key competencies to management success is the ability to manage not only individuals, but the collective team. Some call it “team work management.” Other descriptions include team performance management or team work management. No matter what you call it…the bottom line is it does impact a company’s bottom line! Team success equals a company success.

I like the phrase, “team work management,” which I saw in an article on this topic. A link to the complete article is included at the end of this post.

For this post, I wanted to draw attention to it’s definition and some of the components mentioned in the article that are necessary for successful team performance management.

Please note – this is a skill!!…and an absolutely necessary skill to be a competent and complete manager.

Team management is in essence the optimization of manpower to attain results. Individuals with complimentary skills together form teams, which (hopefully in synergy) strive to attain specific results. Though the priorities might be different for different business entities the end result of team management would always be to increase the profitability of the organization.

I’m going to share the 4 core components included in the article and add comments.  Here they are:

1.  Clarity of vision – I call this going from “me to we.”  Each team member has a conscious and unconscious agenda that drives how they behave within the group and how they prioritize their work.  I have a cool “team building in a box” exercise in my workshops that helps team members make the critical shift from me to we.  This is one of the positive elements of group think.

2.  Selecting the right personnel – Better, targeted hiring is essential to a productive team. To do so,  are you clear on what qualities and skills are necessary for the success of each role within the team, which then directly impacts the success of the team?

This philosophy by the way is a management best practice and is researched and discussed in the book “Good to Great.”  This book is a must read for every management professional.  Don’t have it in your library? – you can get it here: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

3. Holistic approach – see the team in the context of the entire company and how it is specifically contributing to key company objectives. The article terms it this way, “drive the various departments as a single unit. There will be scores of departments in organizations and to attain their proposed objectives these units need to work in tandem by overlooking the boundaries to ensure better coordination and results.” This of course requires great collaboration between the leaders of these departments.

4.Team accountability – as a compliment to touching base one-on-one with individual members, creating ongoing  team and public accountability in the context of team goal setting and reporting meetings is the bow that wraps all the other components together and supercharges productivity.

A key reason for why effective team management needs to be apart of every managers capabilities portfolio can be found in this 2 minute lesson from Management-in-Minutes – entitled “Team Management – The Power of the Group,” which you can  access here.

Finally, obviously this post does not exhaust the topic, but serves as a great springboard for personal assessment and an initial checklist.

Coaching Tip: Where are you at with your knowledge in this area and what practices do you have in place that supports these productivity components?

Also, you may want to have someone come in and springboard your team synergy with some team facilitation.  I am happy to do that as well. Feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss – joann@joanncorley.com

Here is the link to the full article from which this post was sourced.
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