In this presentation we provide stepst to follow in order to reload your teams and have them reach a new level in Performance. Training, Evaluation, Having measures, Goals, Alignment are among important activities you as a Leader must encourage to your team in order to leverage the peformance. Having a reloaded and updated teams are mandatory due to business and environment changes. New strategies, new business models are demanding reloaded teams that will drive companies to better and higher results.

1. Reloaded Teams: How to have a
recharged team.
By Daniel A. Alarcon
ETAM Alarcon Consultores. 2014
El Salvador

2. Justification
Working Teams experiment the normal cycle of every team:
consolidate, mature, member or leader changes, new business
requirements, changes in environment, change on Enterprise
Strategies. These are reasons that obligate teams to reload.
We have read about self managed teams, star teams, high efficient
teams and so on so far, but at the end what we need is that our
teams work aligned with the strategy and in a consistent way
provide results (positive and according goals)
How to reload a Team?

3. Reload the
Leaders
Since Team results and Team performance is a reflection of his or
her leader. The very first person that must be reloaded is the
Leader. Your leaders must be trained, aligned with Vision and
strategies and committed on company’s results.
If the Leader is motivated the transmission to the team will be
easy.
Excellent leader= Excellent team

4. Evaluate the team
An individual evaluation must be performed.
You need to know the skills, competences and qualifications of
each member of your team.
In this step, some decisions should be made, because you need
the right members and a team according the established goals.
A good leader knows almost perfectly each of his team members.

5. Have the Vision,
Mision and Strategy
You must have and know the Vision and Mision of the company. In
addition you need to know the Strategies company is following.
Then, you have to transmit and let your team interiorize these in
order to align all of your members.
The Vision gives your team the main direction.

6. Train in Execution
Is well known that the biggest difficult Is how to execute our
strategies.
Have your leaders and team members trained in Strategy
Execution. They must know good techniques to have strategies
implemented and monitored.
A team without execution is a normal team, but if you have a team
executing and measuring, you will get a high performance and
well driven team.
At the end, Execution is what counts for results.

7. Define Team’s
goals
Executive Team or the General Manager must define in
conjunction with you the goals for your team. Preferable, these
goals should be part of a consensus and discussed with the team.
They must feel these goals are “Theirs”
If goals and objectives were already set, there is a change to
reevaluate due to changes you are seeing in the environment and
business.
If a team has clear goals, they have a clear direction to move to.

8. Train
Your team must be in a periodic training update. The idea is that
the Leader and all members are trained to have all the necessary
skills and competences for the work they are required to perform.
Training must be seen as an investment for the company. Training
must be under a plan coming from HR department and developed
according company’s strategy, team goals, and members needs.
According each area you can use techniques as simulations, case
method, technical discussions, vendors speechs.
Trained members = trained team = better results

9. Measure
How are you going to evaluate a performance without measuring?
Team must have a visible Score board , where all members can see
current progress of each indicator .
Post measures are good, but the most important are those that
can be followed and controlled before the end of a period.
As 4DX theory, we must act on the Lead to have better Lag
measures. Important to have early influence in those activites
that leverage our KPIs.
If we do not measure we can not realize our performance

10. Have a name and
Slogan
If your team receive a Team Building training, you must remember
that one of the activities was to have your team with a name and
slogan.
Why leaving this important activity only for a training session?
Why not promoting to have a name and slogan for your team
afterwards?
Having a name and slogan could impact positively and give
additional engagement to the team members.

11. Use Improvement
Opportunities
Instead of pointing out on weaknesses, use Improvement
Opportunities to indicate those areas in which a team or some
members need to improve.
You must identify those members with some weakness and
become his or her coach. Remember that each member is
contributing to team results and all of them are important.
When he or she hear about Improvement opportunities they
feel that the Leader is taking care of them.

12. Follow up
Main promoter of follow up actions must be the Leader. Establish
short meetings and in a weekly, biweekly or monthly base,
depending on the team work or need.
Must have a short agenda, preferable in a range of 15-20 minutes.
Focused on the agenda and focused on the KPIs follow up.
Every meeting must end up with a plan to make corrections or
changes.
Effective meeting = Better results

13. Learn to Celebrate
Teach your teams to Celebrate, motivate them to do so and
provide the necessary resources for the celebrations.
Work must have a part of fun and motivate them to celebrate
milestones as well as main goals.
When a team celebrates, integration increases. Motivation and
engagement increase too.
Motivate to Celebrate

14. Conclusion
There are a lot of changes in Business Environment and Customers
are now more demanding.
To have high performance, integrated, aligned, trained and
committed teams is not simple or easy. Requires Top Management
participation, demand resources and a good plan. But is a
business demand.
Extraordinary Results are seen in Extraordinary Companies,
where Extraordinary Leaders have conformed Extraordinary
Teams.

15. At ETAM Alarcon Consultores we have developed indoor and
outdoor Team Building trainings.
You can make any consult or send questions to>
Mr. Daniel Alarcon
Director.
dalarcon07@yahoo.com
El Salvador, Central America
2014 ™