Guideline:  How to manage motivated and effective teams

Manage the Project Team

           Effective managers take groups of people and turn them into real teams, and turn the members into team players. To do so they help team members:

1.      Build a trusting relationships with the other members;

2.      Understand the need for communicating and discussing ideas and plans;

3.      Appreciate the diversity and importance of all individuals and their unique skills;

4.      Clarify what roles each member will fulfill;

5.      Feel comfortable contributing their own ideas and insights;

6.      Feel comfortable listening and being open to others’ ideas and insights;          

7.      Develop pride in being part of their team.

Effective managers use whatever is available to help turn strangers into teams.

See also Job Satisfaction  -   Motivation  -  Information overload -   The Knowledge-Based Organization: Managing Its Human Resources Characteristics of a "learning organization"     Seven Steps To Building A Team in the meeting

Templates:

• Checklist for Identifying Performance Problems

• Checklist for Diagnosing the Causes of Underperformance