No matter what kind of business you own or manage, business success leans heavily on the quality of your team \u2013 not just what each individual can do on his or her own, but also what they can do together. Every person you hire brings a different skill set, a different experience and a different perspective to your company and, when they can work together effectively, it\u2019s powerful. From a leadership standpoint, there are a few things that teamwork promotes most obviously \u2013 synergy, efficiency and productivity, which all go together.<\/p>\n
If you go out and hire the best people in your region, but they can\u2019t work together, it\u2019s going to be hard to get anything accomplished. Even though every individual has an awesome skill set and understands the projects and the goals in front of them, they\u2019ll all be operating in silos. Not having that synergy will hurt your efficiency and your productivity, which impacts your bottom line.<\/p>\n
Think about it like this \u2013 if you have four individuals who are all tasked with building one fourth of the same robot, but none of them talk to each other about what that robot needs to be able to do or how it should work, how will the robot even come together? Either you\u2019ll have four mismatched pieces that you hope will work together or you\u2019ll have four individual robots that each person spent four times as much time building by themselves. Neither of those examples will work for your business. You need a robot that works perfectly, looks great and makes the most of the skill set of each individual on the team without costing extra time and money. That requires teamwork.<\/p>\n
In addition to the most visible benefits of having teams that can work together, people who work well together also build comradery. Just like how having one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch, having a staff full of team players who respect each other and value what each employee brings to the table will change the entire dynamic of your business for the better. A great team also provides cross-training learning opportunities. For example, if you have a marketing person, a social media person and a graphics person who all work extremely well together, they will be able to share knowledge, catch each other\u2019s mistakes, bring new ideas to each other\u2019s projects and more \u2013 all to the benefit of your business.<\/p>\n
So how do to make sure you build a team that can work together? This article from Berkeley Human Resources has some great tips<\/a>. We also recommend working with your local Growth Coach to implement our GC Insights program<\/a>. By better understanding each member of your team, you can help them be more efficient and work better together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No matter what kind of business you own or manage, business success leans heavily on the quality of your team \u2013 not just what each individual can do on his or her own, but also what they can do together. Every person you hire brings a different skill set, a different experience and a different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n