Teamwork and Leadership

Effective Team Work:
Effective working teams mad team building is the popular topics in to day’s organizations. A successful team and its work accomplishment magnify the accomplishment of the individual goals and success of the organization. When you want to experiment with teams analyze on what activities you can support and how it is going to help you achieving the goals. Set a few teams that can support diverse fields and activities. Make sure the employees from diverse field participate in individual team. Limit Number of employees who can participate in a particular team. Make sure that team meets at periodic intervals and discuss the achievements of the team and to set goals for future participation. Make the recordings of their achievement in the minutes of meeting. Make the newer employee to add to different teams by making one of the seniors to retire by rotation. The entire idea is to interact with the employee, listen to their ideas and grievances and make the organization to grow as one of the most of sought after for the most talented work force. This will also inculcate team spirit.

Leadership Team:
This is a team where most of your senior\r managers and functional managers participate. Their activity should include discussion on inter disciplinary goals and sub goals which can permeate to the entire growth of the organization. Their discussion on various topics could provide insight to one another the strength and weaknesses of individual department and flow of ideas to improve and rectify defects as and when occurs. The discussions among the top leadership will help them understand the benefit of working as a team rather than working as command leader.

Health & Employee welfare team:

This team should work on boosting the employee morale. They should concentrate on discussing safety measures, environmental consciousness cleanliness and housekeeping activities and periodic health check ups. Etc. Can host lunch and dinner according to dietary instructions and discuss on the benefits of diet to their health. Could host get together on the occasion of birthday, wedding day etc. Can have a Picnic outside and go on a small tour to places of historic interest. Hold competition on writing articles on day to day interest, environmental topics. Conduct walking club, running club, sports meet and discuss the effect of exercise on health. The team can also conduct a monthly news letter and cultivate a habit of writing on work culture information flow, management reliability and ideas to help the organization grow vertically. The group may split their work in sub groups and the idea to have all the work force to be in one or the other team depending on the interest.

The idea is to help and extract information of various topics and ideas disseminating through interaction with one another and utilizing the information to help clear the blockage occurring in fulfilling the set goal to achieve progress. Further you will create an atmosphere that will make the employee feel that he is one among the family and make them harness the full potential of their talent and skill to the betterment of the organization.

Leadership And Employee Relationships

For each functional manager has to have knowledge of what is the employee life cycle. Ay be you are not ready to learn totally about the life cycle of the employees and the fallowing four major points will give you a sufficient idea which in turn will help you plan to align your goals and sub goals.

An employee life cycle is the steps they go through in the company from the time joining till they leave. Most HR managers focus their attention to these steps so as to make an impact on the companies bottom line and minimize the COC (cost to company) per employee.

Un fortunately it is not the HR who is going to work with them and achieve the goal and the employee is going to work under the functional manager and are going to lead from them and it is for the functional managers who is to give guideline on what type of people they want.

So the First step is to Hire:
It is probably the most important step. And you should always look for the best people available and hire them without looking for the effective cost to company details. Here you always look for talent and just the skills. A talented person can easily be trained in various skills and on the contrary Talent cannot be imparted to a skilled person. Impress upon them the companies work culture and make an impressive presentation on how it is to work with you on the long run and make a clear presentation of the goals the company wants to achieve.

The second step is to Inspire:
You have recruited the best talent available and then begin the much harder step of inspiring them to work with you and to perform their duties to their full potential. What you have to do to achieve this is to make them understand that they are part of the team from day one and be receptive to their ideas and allow them to set their own goals in line with the company’s goal. Give them proper guidance and make the flow of communication easier both ways. Be a good leader and not a commander.

The third step is to Admire and keep them with you:
Once the set goal is achieved you must provide to them to go into the next level and make them think what is next and what they can do to utilize their talent and skills to growth of the organization. This is where the most of the attrition occurs. Give the positive feed back that you have achieved the set goal at minimum time and they can do more at higher level to make the company grow along with the growth of the individual. You can always encourage them to give referral to new candidates. Make them feel that is not end of the tunnel.

The lost step is to Retire:
This is when where you know that you have some of the best talent in the field for so long and you are successful in retaining them and you have achieved the goals with the lowest CTC and your company has become one of the most preferred company to work with and you are most admired as the one to work with for their life.

Retire:
This is when you know you have been successful. When employees see your company as the employer of choice, they will join you. When they recognize you as a good boss and a real leader, they will stay around. As long as you continue to inspire, motivate, and challenge them, they will continue to contribute at the high levels you need in order to beat your competition. They will be long-term employees; even staying with you and your company until they retire. They will refer other quality employees to your company, including their relatives. You will attract and retain second and even third generation employees.

Along the way, you will have had some of the most creative employees, some of the most productive employees, and the lowest employee costs in your market. You will be able to spend the money you save in this way on other key competitive elements, including raises and bonuses for all employees – even yourself. That is the principle of 4 ire’s, Hire, inspire, admire and retire.