Team building skills are critical for your effectiveness as a manager or entrepreneur. And even if you are not in a management or leadership role yet, better understanding of team work can make you a more effective employee and give you an extra edge in your corporate office.

 A team building success is when your team can accomplish something much bigger and work more effectively than a group of the same individuals working on their own. You have a strong synergy of individual contributions. But there are two critical factors in building a high performance team.

•  The first factor in team effectiveness is the diversity of skills and personalities. When people use their strengths in full, but can compensate for each other’s weaknesses. When different personality types balance and complement each other.
• The other critical element of team work success is that all the team efforts are directed towards the same clear goals, the team goals. This relies heavily on good communication in the team and the harmony in member relationships. 

In real life, team work success rarely happens by itself, without focused team building efforts and activities. There is simply too much space for problems. For example, different personalities, instead of complementing and balancing each other, may build up conflicts.

 Here are some additional team building ideas, techniques, and tips you can try when managing teams in your situation:

•Make sure that the team goals are totally clear and completely understood and accepted by each team member.

•Make sure there is complete clarity in who is responsible for what and avoid overlapping authority. For example, if there is a risk that two team members will be competing for control in certain area, try to divide that area into two distinct parts and give each more complete control in one of those parts, according to those individual’s strengths and personal inclinations.

•Build trust with your team members by spending one-on-one time in an atmosphere of honesty and openness. Be loyal to your employees, if you expect the same.

•Allow your office team members build trust and openness between each other in team building activities and events. Give them some opportunities of extra social time with each other in an atmosphere that encourages open communication.

•For issues that rely heavily on the team consensus and commitment, try to involve the whole team in the decision making process. What you want to achieve here is that each team member feels his or her ownership in the final decision, solution, or idea.

•When managing teams, make sure there are no blocked lines of communications and you and your people are kept fully informed. Even when your team is spread over different locations, you can still maintain effective team communication.

•Be careful with interpersonal issues. Recognize them early and deal with them in full.

 •Don’t miss opportunities to empower your employees. Say thank you or show appreciation of an individual team player’s work.

•Don’t limit yourself to negative feedback. Be fare. Whenever there is an opportunity, give positive feedback as well.

Build a team is a hard job, so don´t try to put all the tips in practice at the same time. Maybe you can start with two or three, when you feel ready, you can add two more. Your effort to build a high performance team is well worth it.

To delegate tasks, isn’t anything easy or to take lightly, a simple rule to bear in mind is if the task that you have to do, it can be done for someone esle. This will give us more free time to do the things that only we can do.

Next I tell you some rules to achieve the success on delegate tasks:

Know the  task: It is important to know in what  the task consists and determines the target. Do you realize that to fix targets is one of the more important skills of management? A target is a final destination, if you know it prune to prepare the route, to calculate the time, to find alternative ways and in the end you will have conscience of having come where you wanted.

Choose to whom you are going to delegate the task: If something isn’t urgent, I chose the person most indicated to realize the work, but nothing prevents from entrusting a crucial task to a capable and intelligent person, although it has no experience in this particular area.

Fixes parameters: The person in whom it delegates has to know the work that it has to realize but also the target to which he answers. It is important that he knows what hopes to be achieved and why. But he will need to know something more:  how long he has or what authority he has. Then it is necessary to provide him:

A target.
A delivery time.
Quality parameters.
A budget (if it is necessary).
To determine up to where his authority comes.
Information about the available resources.
Make sure that he has understood you: Cheers up another person to whom he speaks on the work to be sure that it has understood well what it has to do and why. Prune  him to suggest ideas whenever you don’t force him to adopt your approach.

Give information: If you can, help the person in whom it has delegated. Speaks with the chief of another department so that it helps him, tell to him where be able to find the information if you know already from which it can be extracted

Verify closely his advances: If the task or project is long,  it is important organizes meetings of pursuit. Even in the short tasks, don’t forget to verify how it goes: a pursuit closely, although it is informal, usually gives better turned out than a formal meeting. That allows to the person to consult to you the doubts that could have arisen, which he verifies that it isn’t getting lost in details or that it has chosen the wrong approach. The pursuit improves his confidence and, of step, also it calms you.
In any case, to do a pursuit doesn’t imply interfering. It verifies that it isn’t committing serious errors, but don’t lose the time with tritenesses. It is inevitable that not everything is to your taste and, probably, of having done you the work also you would have committed errors. You must only intervene in case of serious error and only so that the things return to his river bed. Don’t take the task or project from him, if you find an error, this turn out to be much a demoralizing person and must only be done in extreme circumstances.

Appreciatethe work. (Last, but not less important!) when the person has finished his work, prepares a meeting of evaluation. If it deserves it, congratulate it on his effort.  It is important that the person has learned one or more lessons on having realized the task. The next time will make it better.

A team is a group of persons (individuals), who have learned like working TOGETHER, to obtain a target.

One can realize when a group of persons is a team because:

• They establish clearly his mission and targets.
• It is well organized.
• It has clear the functions and responsibilities of his members.
• Between members the communication is  in an open way.
• It solves the disagreements internally.
• Steadies  in the capacities of his members.

When does a team come to his maximum potencial?

• Know well his targets and commits itself with them.
• They develop procedure of work effective, avoiding the bureaucracy.
• When they construct on the differences. This point is very important, since there cannot be avoided the differences(that’s why we are individual).
• They acquire flexibility and adaptability.
• They are capable of learning permanently.

What do yo think about it?