Want a tip on how to build high performing teams?

…….have clear expectations!

What I mean by this is that as a manager and a leader you should be communicating clear expectations for your team’s performance and their expected outcomes.

Does every team member know exactly what is expected from them?

Do they know what a great job looks like?

Do they know what they CAN influence and what they CAN’T?

Does your team actually work like a team with effective communications between team members and an attitude of "I can help you with that too"? Or are they seperate workers working within "Your team"? There’s a big difference.

What support and development do you give your team? Do you know what support they need? Have you even asked them?

When all is said and done, setting clear expectations is a vital skill and activity for a leader. Indeed, CLARITY is always seen as one of the areas where companies fall down so don’t let that happen within your team.

Live, love and laugh!

Sean Mc

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Here’s an email I received from Lee Braddock recently. It’s about that many people never actually "communicate" with one another but many people "talk" with one another.

There’s a big difference!

Here’s what Lee wrote:

Sean,
I read this last message concerning, Subject:  Do You Really Listen?.  I teach a course in Effective Communication/Relationship Skills and these are some of the same skills I teach.  I also have authored a book on personal development.  Isn’t it depressing that as we go through school, college, church, and then we enter the working world that people truly believe they communicate well.  I believe it is because we have gone to school and that "talking" is an accepted practice.  I have attempted several time to place my courses into junior colleges and in adult learning and powers to be in the areas of higher learning feel that the course I teach has little or no benefit. 

We are taught how to read, to write a sentence, a paragraph, even essays, but we are not taught how to effectively communicate with one another.
We are not taught how communicate our feelings to another, which is vitally important to sustain any kind of relationship.  We are taught how to preform math equations, but we are not taught how to effectively problem solve, nor are we taught how to properly decision make.

We have always been told that one should play fair and with sports, this is used to teach one to be completive, and to have good sportsmanship, but we are taught how to have a health relationship.  We are not taught how or why to be creative, or to respect oneself, or for that matter respect others.  These are the things I teach and I simply want to say that your information is wonderful, thank you.
Respectfully,
Lee Braddock, MA