Expert Opinion: Grow the power of your team

Ahead of the next Rise with Xeinadin breakfast seminar on 14th November, Hallidays HR Director Liz Chiva explains how you as the leader can build the right team and the ideal environment for it to grow.

What’s the difference between a workforce and a team?

If you think they’re roughly the same thing, you need to read this. Because the difference can be as black and white as success and failure.

Studies prove over and over again that an engaged team, with a shared vision and mutual trust, gets more done, in less time, more profitably. And it’s much more likely to propel a business to reach its goals.

In fact, the phrase ‘more profitably’ is an understatement.  According to a study by Harvard Business Review, a business focusing on individual and team morale can be 30%-40% more profitable.

That’s not a small difference.

What’s more, companies that feature in ‘The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies To Work For’ consistently outperform others in their sectors by 15%–20%.

Other studies have shown that a 10%-15% increase in team satisfaction and happiness can improve net profitability by 42%.

So who wouldn’t love a team like that?  How do you get one?

You and your team must be ready to move fast, switch and modify plans.  They must keep open minds, and an unerring eye on the future.

And above all, they must share the leaders passion, purpose, vision and goals.

This is not a hiring issue. You can’t simply throw money at it.

It’s a teambuilding issue – and there are no shortcuts. It takes courage, discipline and the investment of a lot of emotional energy.

And it’s not enough to simply communicate your vision for the business – however clearly.

You need to find the way to get every one of your team sharing your purpose – and matching your passion. So you all have the same motivation to get out of bed every morning.

In conventional organisations, the people at the bottom have all of the information and push it up to the top. Whereas the most successful businesses push the decision-making authority down.

Giving the responsibility and accountability of decision making to the people with the best information.

It means, instead of telling someone to do this, or that, you tell them where you want to get to – what you want to achieve – and let them get on with it. Because they should know their jobs better than you do, so they’re better equipped to get things done on the spot than you are from afar.

People, like plants, grow differently and prefer different conditions. They communicate, react and behave differently. What’s important to some barely matters to others,

So you need to transform yourself, not into one model leader, but as many types of leader as there are people in your team.

Rise with Xeinadin takes business leaders like you through a tried-and-tested, step by step guide to growing a successful company. Giving them a distinctly unfair advantage over their competitors.

It trains you in invaluable skills like setting effective goals, removing the barriers to growth, developing a growth strategy and how to be a more inspiring, successful leader. One that people follow – not just because you’re paying them – but because they want to go where you’re going.

And in the next module, we’re going to show you how you can build an engaged, productive and profitable team.

And the figures show that if you apply these learnings persistently and consistently, you will see results on the bottom line.  

The next Rise event – ‘Grow the power of your team’, will be presented by Liz Chiva, Hallidays HR Director on Tuesday 14^th November from 9.30am until 12pm at Hallidays’ office on Kings Reach, Stockport.

Hallidays offer a complimentary first session to meet the team and include a money-back guarantee on the whole programme. There are just a small number of places left on the programme, so sign up for the next Rise session today via the Xeinadin website