In a recent blog entitled The Paralyzing Effects of Poor Performance I discussed the psychological drivers behind why many Leaders become paralyzed in the face of taking action when faced with employee performance issues.

In this post I wanted to share 6 proven steps that if followed, will effectively address any and all employee performance issues a Leader will face while affecting change within your organization in a straightforward and non-biased manner.

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Leaders in every organization talk about building the team, working as a team, and “my” team. Yet few understand how to build and create a strong, supportive business team.

Why is this?

Because most skilled company executives and managers are exploring ways to improve business results and rightfully so, view team-based organization structures as the best design for involving employees in creating business success.

No matter what you call your team-building efforts – whether it is continuous improvement, total quality, or lean manufacturing – you are striving to improve results for customers.

Unfortunately, few organizations are pleased with the results their team efforts produce. If this describes your organization, then you will gain a tremendous edge by learning what our experience has shown in helping organizations across North America and Europe to build and create strong, supportive teams.

We call these “truths” because they have stood the test of time.

That is, in our work spanning over 25 years, these truths of creating strong, supportive teams in the workplace continue to re-occur across time, genders, industry verticals, and national boundaries.

The Six Truths to Creating a Strong, Supportive Team are:

• Truth One: A Sense of Commitment
• Truth Two: Showing Appreciation
• Truth Three: Sharing Positive Communication
• Truth Four: Spending Off-Line Time Together
• Truth Five: Shared Values
• Truth Six: Cope with the Unexpected

Let’s review each and provide some practical actions on what you can do to ensure success in your quest for creating a strong, supportive team in your organization

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In Part 1 of this article, we started talking about the 6 truths of creating and building a strong, supportive business team, and detailed the first 3 truths.

In this post I’m going to share with you the final 3 truths so you can get started creating and developing your own team using these strategies.

Truth Four:  Spending Off-Line Time Together

Strong, supportive teams make a conscious effort to spend off-line time together.  They know that this type of time helps build relationships and helps to create a feeling of team identity.

Off-line time together can involve eating meals together, participating in community events, celebrating special events, holidays, or just plain “hanging out.”

To spend off-line time together try the following:

• Make team members aware of the importance to spending off-line time together and encourage them to do it
• Make the effort to purposefully have certain meals together or to take workplace breaks together
• Plan monthly team outings and make it easy for all to attend

  Read More The 6 Truths of Creating & Building a Strong, Supportive Business Team – Part 2