When you have meetings with your team to impress upon them a certain new idea or policy that your organization is planning to implement, what is your focus on? Most probably, as a team leader, you think about elements such as getting the maximum work output from your team, setting up committees and different work groups, distributing work among the team, explaining the core requirements of what is to be done and so on. All this is definitely done-and needs to be done-but in the crowd of all these aspects, most team leaders forget the one very important thing that should be the prime focus of such meetings.
Establishing crystal clear goals!
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The problem here is that the leaders look forward too soon. They speak about the goals to their team leaders at the start of the meeting but then quickly hop on towards other areas, such as the implementation of those goals. But, think about it-if your team is still in the dark about what they are supposed to chase, how are they going to achieve it?
A fruitful team meeting would be when everyone present knows what the group has to fulfill while working in collaboration. In short, they want to know why they are put into a team while, according to them, they were working well when they were individuals.
No team can function without purpose, and when you establish goals, you are giving your team a purpose to be together.
The following are some ways that can help you clarify your goals to your team:-
1. Spend a lot of time explaining to your team each aspect of your goal. Actually, this is the part that should form the bulk of your initial meeting, not the work allocation aspect, which can be anyway refined later.
2. Reiterate the goals during every subsequent meeting.
3. Tell people, clearly, why these goals need to be met. Tell them how they will benefit the organization and, most importantly, tell them how they will personally benefit.
4. Ask people questions about the goals you have put forward, and welcome them to ask questions too. When they ask questions, they are already participating. Don't ever commit the blunder of scraping question-answer rounds.
These are small things but they go a long way in reinforcing the collective sentiment within your team. Without clear goals, a team will cease to exist before long.
Why You Should Establish Clear Goals For Your Team
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