Applying The Techniques to Grow and Develop Your Team

How are you developing your team?

There are many structural processes that support growth and development.

So which are you using or where have you found success?

There is a process and regime that successful tams contain. 

Maybe you haven’t identified the “why” behind your success.

That’s okay. 

Identifying the process, or your successes, makes it easier to duplicate.

In addition to duplicating the process, you being able to teach others how to achieve that success, is even more important.

When a full team knows how to build relationships through successful structures, a winning team is underway.

Today we will review pointers in helping you to achieve growth and development within your team.

Let’s get started.

One-on-One

Regardless if you realize it or not, every interaction you have with someone is a mini one-on-one.

Individuals get to know each other based upon what they experience within their interactions.

If you haven’t considered anyone judging you based upon your actions that they observe, you’re wrong.

Whether interacting directly with you, or with someone else from afar, that interaction will receive judgement by those who observe it.

The key aspect to realize is that you always want to present actions that are aligned with who you are.

This will help people to understand you more accurately.

When there is a direct one-on-one interaction, and not an interaction judged from afar, people are beginning to judge what type of person you are.

Your intent could match what you’d want to present, or you could get the wrong perception.

• Self-awareness will help you deliver the intent you desire to present more accurately.

Self-awareness is a journey within itself and I recommend you start as soon as possible.

What you should realize is that within a one-on-one, there are key characteristics you want to learn about your team members.

Essentials

Before you jump into any other topics, it is important that you know the person first.

• This could align with their family, their upbringing, their hobbies, their likes, their dislikes, what they spend their time most doing and what is important to them outside of work.

Getting to know the person is the first step in this exchange.

In every interaction, it should always be an exchange. 

• Not just one person asking all the questions to learn more about the other individual.

It should be an open exchange of both people sharing the their feedback on each topic.

Your ability to understand your teammate is essential for peak performance.

Now that you know each other from an essential standpoint, the next topic can be addressed.

Aspirations

Aspirations are very important.

Knowing what desires, passions and devotions a person has is a gateway into understanding them better.

• Self-development for each person happens differently.

Their drive for anything that they aspire to be is very important to them. 

So, it should be very important to you as well.

• Support is a form of development toward unification for any team.
• Trust, support and partnership, can happen, if development is initiated.

Any team, should begin a structure of development as soon as possible.

Sharing each others aspirations is just another aspect of knowing each other better.

Hidden talents are usually revealed in this step of the one-on-one.

As you complete each step in developing a better relationship through positive engagement, your development as a team will gain growth.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The next topic you want to speak about is your strengths and weaknesses.

• This portion of the one-on-one should involve prior preparation where each individual has taken time to brainstorm and write down their strengths and weaknesses.

The process of truly identifying your own strengths and weaknesses is an individual self development technique within itself.

This evaluation brings better self-awareness and helps you to goal set for the future.

Whether the person has done this before or not, it is a great task to complete for self-development.

In the one-on-one, it is important to share these with each other because true team members support each other and compliment each other by using their strengths, for each other when another team member could use it.

• Knowing when to support, or use your strength as support for someone else, is only possible if you know their weaknesses.

When trust is present, and a team has a positive foundation, team members will not mind sharing their strengths and weaknesses with each other.

In a toxic environment, no one will want to share these things.

This can be a good gauge on the perception of your work environment as well.

Conclusion

These three foundational topics to discuss (or learn about) with any team member, is a growth-based practice.

As each of your team members begin to learn each other better, they will learn how they can perform better together.

If you are a leader, it is your responsibility to place your strongest players in their best positions when its gametime.

• Not knowing your players, is not a basis of any successful team.
• Your team members not knowing each other, is not a basis of any successful team.

As more of your team understands the structure, expectations, goals and current performance, you’ll be one step closer to high performance results.

Thanks for joining us today faithful readers – future leaders.

Love ya and continue to strive for growth.

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