Building a successful and creative team ready to innovate your business to the next level is the dream of every team leader. But is there a secret recipe or a shortcut to take to achieve it?
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The research suggests that following these golden rules make it easier to build an effectively working creative team.
Have people with different skill sets
Different personalities have different strengths. Don’t fill your team with just one type of strength and cast others out. Instead, embrace variability.
Different people bring in different skills and balance each other. After bringing the different types of people in, remember to respect their different ways of thinking and working by not trying to fit everyone in the same box. To maximise the effect, make sure you have the right people at the right places, focusing on the right things, while still remembering that innovative ideas don’t always come from dedicated people or specialists.
Mix up cultures
Good news for multicultural places such as Luxembourg! Mixing up different cultures boosts creativity and idea production. In teams that bring together people from different cultures and backgrounds, it is crucial to pay attention to mutual respect to make sure everyone feels comfortable and appreciated.
Have a common goal
In an effective team the members actively work towards the common goal set by the leader. It is important that the team members have a personal motivation to work towards the common goal.
Have a good leader
Having a good and motivating leader is a key factor in efficient team building. A good leader motivates people to work towards the common goal. Happy and motivated people work better and fair leadership is a key cause of employee happiness, so don’t underestimate the importance of a good leader.
A good leader knows how to build a team where people support each other’s strengths and weaknesses and how to give people room to do what they were hired to do without regressing into micromanagement. Find the balance between micromanagement and being there for your team.
Build people-focused organizational culture
Build a people-focused environment where people are encouraged to speak up and express their ideas. Allow people to work in their preferred way, offer them goals to achieve, and make sure they experience psychological safety. Encourage people to build an organizational culture of their own and it will be just as unique as the people working for you.
Give people room to develop and remember that knowledge is easier to achieve than changing oneself to fit in a team one doesn’t naturally fit. Bear in mind that you don’t hire people just for their technical skills; you want for them to fit into your team.
Implement employee journey mapping
Take the basics of customer journey mapping and move it to your personnel. Find the touchpoints where your team gets dissatisfied. After discovering the touchpoints, figure out the reasons behind the dissatisfaction and fix them to make sure you don’t have an unhappy team or lose your biggest asset: your team.
