10 Ways to Help Your Team Achieve Better Results

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As a leader, your success is not only judged by your results, but it is measured by the productivity and performance of your team members. Managers who support their team members are often seeing better results from their teams. Leading a team of any size can be difficult but it can be rewarding when done right.

To help your team achieve better results and become more productive, we will go over the importance of teamwork and prove 10 ways to help support your team.

Key Takeaways:

• When you support your team members you help create a happier and healthier workplace which results in increased motivation levels and improves productivity.

• Ensuring proper communication and feedback with your team allows trust to be build and improvement where it is needed.

• Make sure you set reasonable expectations and goals based of the strengths of your team.

The Importance of Teamwork

Supporting your team and teamwork can help create a happier and healthier work environment not only for you, but for your team as well. When professionals feel supported by their colleagues, they are often more confident in their abilities and return that support for others. The benefits of teamwork include:

• Increases motivation levels. Working with others helps build trust and respect between the group as you work toward a common goals. When you respect your team, delivering the best work possible helps lead to any disappointment they may feel which can result in a higher motivation level to do the work.

• Offers a different perspective. Collaborations mean having new ideas and perspectives on how to do a project. This allows for the team to create mew problem solving approaches to accomplish the goal. Having these different perspectives also allow for feedback to be given, which is a great way for others to continue to learn and grow.

• Improves productivity. Getting feedback and collaborating with your team results in finding new ways to do projects and work which leads to the team being more efficient and productive.

• Provides learning opportunities. Having different teams work together on different projects allows for the opportunity to learn new things. This is especially important when only a few people know how to do a specific task, they are able to teach more people making everyone more efficient. Teamwork helps promote knowledge and advancement.

• Fewer mistakes. When the team has good energy, you encourage and inspire each other. This results in everyone feeling less stressed and on there verge of burnout. Stress often leads to making more mistakes. Working together takes of the pressure off induvial, creating better work.

Ways To Help Support Your Team To Achieve Better Results

1. Ensure proper communication. Communication is one of the most important factors to contribute to team productivity. Without it, a team is not able to work together resulting in the business failure. Not being able to properly communicate to your team leads to misunderstandings and that leads to failures.

   Consider establishing a primary form of communication such as a group chat or email, and discuss how often it is to be used to be effective. Also encourage face-to-face communication such as weekly check in meetings or how often it is necessary. The form of communication used will help the team express their ideas, any concerns they are having, and update on the status of their work.

   Having proper communication with your team, it builds trust and a sense of teamwork. Avoid sharing any sensitive information with other coworkers and always respond to messages within an appropriate amount of time.

2. Establish clear company goals. To get teams focused on their objectives, you must start at the top. Identify the most important company priorities by assessing what’s most critical to the company right now. Refer to your strategy to ensure the objectives you’re setting align with your company vision and mission.

   Make sure these goals are reasonable and understand what your team is capable of. The only way your team will be able to achieve better results is if it is within their limits. It’s good to challenge them to help them improve, but understand their professional limits.

3. Set strengths-based objectives. In addition to being aligned with the top company priorities, your employees’ objectives should also be based on their strengths. Collaborate with your teams to create goals that allow them to use and further develop their talents and skills.

   Set some operational objectives, as well as some moonshots or aspirational goals, for even greater benefits. This approach works because it doesn’t overwhelm the employee by giving them only significant challenges to focus on, which could be demotivating. Instead, you’ll strike a balance between stretch goals, which will challenge them and encourage growth, as well as operational objectives, which allow them to achieve a sense of accomplishment through small yet important weekly wins.

4. Develop a culture of collaboration. Encourage your teams to share ideas and offer their insights to facilitate a driven, innovative culture. Everyone should feel as if their input is not only welcome, but valued. For this reason, all managers must develop ongoing feedback loops not only to provide their own feedback on employee performance, but also to give teams an outlet for sharing their own ideas.

   One effective way to develop and maintain a culture of collaboration is to give everyone an opportunity to speak during team meetings. In fact, you should designate a time frame for each team member to share updates, and include it on the meeting agenda. Another powerful method for creating a strong culture of collaboration is to invite their input during one-on-one meetings.

5. Give constructive feedback. To help improve your team, provide feedback, whether it be good or bad. The only way employees are able to grow and learn from their mistakes is to understand what they are doing is wrong or incorrect. During the weekly or monthly meetings, provide any feedback to them. Doing this helps build tryst with your team by showing that you are committed to their success. During these meetings is a good time to go over the goals and expectations and change them as needed.

   Allow your employees to proved you feedback during this time as well. The only way that you will learn and improve your management style is to understand what is working and what is not working. They are able to let you know if they need more guidance or if they are wanting more creative freedom with their work.

6. Inspire your team. Team members are more receptive to the tasks that they are given when it is given by a manager that encourages them and leads by example. Make sure build up their confidence by acknowledging their effort and success. When they are appreciated, they will show it in the work that they produce.

   Another way to inspire your team is to be open minded about things. Listen to their ideas and suggestions instead of just telling them how you want things done. Allowing for brainstorming and voicing their ideas helps lead the company in success and more efficient practices.

7. Reward your team. A great way to help your team achieve better results is to offer rewards. Showing appreciation for their work will help them feel empowered and continue to produce high quality work. Make sure the rewards are more than just a virtual pat on the back through an email or message. Try to acknowledge them in person instead of virtually. Some rewards can include:

   • Express thanks with a public thank-you

   • Offer time off or half days

   • Small gifts such as gift cards

   • Buy your team lunch

   • Let them work from home once a week

8. Use team building exercises. To encourage teamwork in the workplace, using team building exercises is a great way to start. Doing this can help create a support system for you and your team by strengthening everyone’s teamwork skills. Team building exercises also builds closer relationships and builds trust among employees, creating a more positive workplace and improves productivity.

9. Be flexible. It’s important to be flexible with your team and remember that they have a life outside of work. When you are flexible with their work schedule and allowing them to work from home if possible, it helps your team members have a better work-life balance. Work-life balance is important in reducing stress and burnout which creates more productivity.

   Talk with your employees about what times work best for them. Some workers may not be as productive early in the morning and would prefer working in the afternoon or evening. Giving them the flexibility to work when they want empowers them and helps them increase their engagement and motivation. Happier employees also reduces the retention rates and helps you attract great talent, which helps achieve better results.

10. Include them. A great way to help your team members achieve better results is to include them in some of the management process. When they have an understanding with what is going on with the company, they will want to help improve results. It can be hard for some individuals to produce their best work when they are unsure what the purpose of the work is for.

Author

Taylor Berman

Taylor is a freelance writer from Pennsylvania. Taylor got into writing because she enjoys writing articles that help people and loves creating stories that inspire. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and public relations with an interest in communications media from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.