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HR: Effective Team Management Skill
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Effective Team Management Skill

By Betsy Taylor


BT 201611 130 01 HR Team ManagementA manager functions as the top supervisor in a specific department of an organization and carries out a variety of duties. You've got a new team or you're creating one; either way, the first step to leading a team effectively is to establish your leadership, as a manager, with each team member.

For a manager, it is important to make a positive and strong first impression and to begin building integrity with his new team. Having creativity in capturing other's attention is an important requirement that should be present in a team manager. Leading an effective team management involves many important elements that one should go through to cultivate a high-performance team.


How well do you delegate?


BT 201611 130 03 HR Team ManagementDelegation is one of the most important and effective management skills. Without the ability to delegate effectively, one cannot advance management. The first step in learning how to delegate is to think through the job and decide exactly what is to be done. The second step in delegation involves setting performance standards; your job as a manager is to develop your people and delegation is the means that you use to bring out the best in the members of your team. After that, one has to determine a schedule and a deadline for getting the job done.


While talking about these steps, we must consider some important keys to effective delegation that include:


1. Picking up the right person, whose abilities match with the requirement of the job.
2. Being clear about the task.
3. Ensuring the person to whom you are delegating understands the task.


You need to delegate in such a way that people in your team feel confident and obliged towards their job.


Team Communication Skills


Communication is critical and is driven by the team leader who works with the team to establish basic principles and bring the team together so that it can accomplish its goals. Effective team communication can develop both professional and personal development by helping the team to learn how to manage conflicts in positive ways. Strong team communication skills help in raising chances of good ideas being shared openly by your team members. If the team communication skills are poor then team members might be hesitant to share their ideas and practices in fear of being rejected and criticized.

As a team manager, one should be likely to conduct meeting sessions with their team members in order to lead an effective and productive team and for that a manager must go through some very crucial elements that include:


- Brainstorming: The purpose of brainstorming sessions is to work as a group to define a problem and find through creative thinking the best group decisions for a plan of action. It is a powerful technique for problem-solving, team building and is also a creative process.


Brainstorming enables people to suggest new ideas. Your job as a manager is to encourage everyone to participate, to prevent others from criticizing anyone's suggestion, and most importantly to record every suggestion. Use brainstorming well and you will see excellent results in improving the team.


- Active listening: As we all know, active listening is an essential aspect of effective team management. A manager should have the ability to block out any distraction during the periods of communicating with his team.

BT 201611 130 04 HR Team ManagementDevelop and Motivate Your Team


Each of your team members will have different outlooks on every task, some may find it challenging and others who are already experts may be looking for other opportunities to manifest more of their skills. Either way, your role is to develop all of your people and help them become better at what they do, and the best way to it is to give them your feedback, may it be negative or positive. Giving feedback is one of the greatest tools in the manager's toolkit to motivate his team and make them understand that we all make mistakes; it's a part of life. The key is to learn valuable lessons from those mistakes.


As a leader, it's your job to set clear goals to bring reinforcement among the members of your team and once you've done that, then make sure that everyone knows exactly what those goals are, what their relative priority is, and what the team's role is in reaching those goals.


Your behavior should be firm with your team members, neither too lenient nor too strict but your team should always feel free to clear any confusion or discuss anything regarding the job with you. You need to be clear, honest and prompt when dealing with them and should always keep a bird's eye-view over them. Appreciation is an influential key so recognize their efforts. The manager should always appreciate the team for doing a better job. Smile, pay attention, and show respect at every encounter.


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