Collins Business Secrets: Team Management

In this Book

• Collins Business Secrets—Team Management
• Managing teams is a balancing act
• Know what you mean by ‘team’
• Define success for your team
• Know when you haven’t got a team
• Plan to be a real team leader
• Check that you have some followers
• Manage a cross-functional team
• Pick the right people
• Get the team performing quickly
• Create a team identity
• Create a team vision
• Agree the ground rules
• Understand team roles
• Use roles for teamwork and task success
• Measure the teamwork
• Manage teams within teams
• Create tasks
• Build inter-dependencies
• Avoid MIYST
• Manage the miseries
• Keep smiling
• Give praise in public
• Reward your people
• Avoid being a ‘monkey manager’
• Delegate to support your team
• Run good team briefs
• Use all channels to give your message
• Decide who needs to know what
• Listen to your team
• Don’t forget the remote people
• Give your team some publicity
• Know who is working for whom
• Build and keep trust
• Lead by example
• Support your team as a whole
• Support your individuals
• Manage the creative tension
• Don’t encourage ‘prima donnas’
• Manage your own boss
• ‘Manage out’ uncooperative people
• Learn to let go
• Recognize survivor syndrome
• React sensibly to change
• Take the first step to manage survivors
• Follow up the survivor management
• Prepare to say goodbye
• Celebrate success
• Learn from experience
• Spread the word
• Keep in touch
• Provide ‘after care’ for your team
• Jargon buster
• Further reading