5 Key Ways To A Winning Team
1. Strong Leadership
The importance of strong leadership is crucial to any team.
Not only does a great leader set the tone for the business but they should also inspire their team with the vision, mission and culture of the company.
A well-respected leader can expect better recruitment and retention of staff. Committed, valued team members who are happy and motivated at work will ultimately contribute to a more productive team with greater opportunities for business growth.
In Stephen M. R. Covey’s book ‘Trust & Inspire’, he explains how truly great leaders can unleash greatness in others.
Covey recommends 3 “stewardships” namely ‘modelling’ so who you are and how you behave, ‘trusting’ meaning how you lead and ultimately ‘inspiring’ where you connect to your ‘why’.
So what kind of business leader are you?
You can read our post here about the 8 Different Types of Business Leader.
2. Vision, Mission and Culture
In Brad Sugar’s Book Instant Team Building, he stresses the importance of having a vision statement and sharing it with your team.
As the founder and CEO of ActionCOACH worldwide, Sugars spreads his vision of “world abundance through business coaching” in 80 countries via 20,000 business coaches.
The vision for any business should be your long-term goal, he says. The big picture of what you want it to be and look like. Then you can work on your mission statement, which sets out how you’re going to achieve and accomplish your vision.
Your company culture, advises Sugars should be based on a 12 point statement:
- Your 3 most important values as leader of the business
- Your team’s 3 most important values
- Your customer’s 3 most important values
- Your company’s 3 most important values
By working on this, as a team, you can create a culture statement.
Here are ActionCOACH’s 14 Points of Culture
As a team here at ActionCOACH Cheltenham, we discuss these points weekly, in our team meetings.
3. Understanding Your Team and How DiSC Can Help
If you are you struggling to communicate with your work colleagues, you’re tired of not being listened to or you feel unhappy as a leader; it might be due to a lack of understanding of human behaviour and how you and your team communicate.
What Our Clients Discover
At ActionCOACH Cheltenham we use DiSC profiles to help our clients understand more about themselves as business leaders, how to communicate better and get the best out of their team.
It allows our clients and their staff to interact and work more effectively together. We believe that learning about behaviour as a business professional is an invaluable insight into reducing any conflict and improving working relationships.
What is the DiSC® System?
DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used by more than one million people every year to help improve teamwork, communication and productivity in the workplace.
The DiSC profile tool is based on a theory devised over a 100 year’s ago by William Moulton Marston and looks at how you work with others, based on your personality traits.
Knowing your DiSC profile will give you an indication of how you may come across to others, help you predict how you’ll respond to a situation and how to work better with colleagues.
The 4 Key Behaviour Types
D= Dominance (red)
I = Influence (yellow)
S = Steady (green)
C = Conscientious (blue)
4. Common Goal
Leading your team and working towards a common goal are two vital business coaching techniques to improve your business growth.
Clients of ActionCOACH Cheltenham, together with their business coach work towards 1, 3 and 5 year goals. Then devise a strategy and plan to achieve them.
The success of our clients’ achievements is testament to the powerful impact that working towards a common goal can have.
Watch these videos here to hear how our clients are working towards their business and lifestyle goals and how it’s changing their lives.
5. Action Plan
Another powerful way to working with and inspiring you team is set your goals around an action plan.
To share your vision, goals and successes with your team will inspire them to even greater achievements.
Having a plan is a key part of business coaching. To have someone alongside you to keep you motivated, focussed and more importantly accountable.
Every 90 days, our clients meet for a quarterly action planning day. These events are not only a great way to meet other like-minded business owners and to share peer-to-peer insights with other leaders, they are a valuable part of creating an action plan. To set the ambitions of the business for the next business quarter and to take it back to the office to share with your team.
Would you like to talk to us about you, your team and business goals?
Our team can support your team!
Then book a gifted 30 minute business coaching session with Neil Martin our business coach here.
