Building a successful team is one of the hardest things in management - follow these 7 top tips to assist you in constructing the team that achieves.

1. 7 TOP TIPS FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL TEAM

2. DREAM IT
Visualise in your mind’s eye what YOUR team
will look like.
What culture do you want to create?
Focused, Fun and Forward-looking?
Creative, Caring and Can-do?
What behaviours will you be looking for?

3. BUILD IT
Recruit for attitude and attract like
minded people.
Recruiting on knowledge and skills
alone may not give you the results
you are looking for.
People need to be able to work
together, so trust your instinct to
have people who work for each other

4. S.W.O.T. IT!
Analyse the skills, knowledge and
attitude required and identify any gaps.
Find out the:
Strengths in your team and potential
Weaknesses.
Consider the Opportunities they bring
and what could be a Threat to the
team’s success.
Undertaking a Belbin team role
assessment will help to discover natural
styles and abilities as well as help you to
spot any shortfalls in the team.
Decide how and who will fill these roles.

5. Equip It!
As a
manager
your role is
to facilitate.
Provide the
resources
they need
and train to
fill the gaps
in
knowledge,
skills and
application.

6. Evolve It!
Enjoy the journey together and test regularly.
Encourage people to push themselves and try new things

7. CELEBRATE IT!
Celebrate successes but most
importantly help the team
learn from the failures.
This may be the ideal
opportunity to revisit Belbin
the team assessment.
Discuss what helped or
hindered the team?

8. RENEW IT!
Attract new talent to replace for natural
progression. Scout for new talent. One
measure of success is that you have
developed people so well that they create
opportunities for themselves to grow and
move on when the time is right. Having an
attitude where you help your team members
to progress will often attract good people.