Tips of the week

Leadership Skills –

Effective team leaders build effective teams!

Seven ideas to build effective teams include:

• 1. Allow members to improve the way things are done.
  2. Share team goals… answer the question “Why are we here?”
  3. Build self-esteem by complimenting; make members feel good about themselves.
  4. Encourage
  5. Forgive mistakes
  6. Model the way you want members to behave.
  7. Build a special relationship with each member;
  8. Have no favourites – lunch with all or lunch with none.
  9. Continue to learn, grow, change, improve.

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Communication Skills – Listening –

Listening needs to be a focused activity. Multitasking and listening do not mix. Listening is the most under used communications skill.  We need to work hard at effective listening.

Eleven ideas to increase success with listening include:

1. Remove other thoughts.
2. Listen intently – you can’t learn less.
3. Listen for ideas or the essence.
4. Be responsible for listening.
5. Stay focused even if the speaker is boring or repetitive
6. Take notes to say focused.
7. Confirm and clarify frequently
8. Maintain eye contact.
9. Maintain positive facial expression
10. Maintain alert posture.
11. Nod to demonstrate interest.

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Project Management Skills –

Using specific knowledge, skills and techniques to complete projects effectively is what project management means.

Two ideas to increase success with projects include:

1. Create your plan before you start implementing any actions. The purpose of your plan is to:

• Clarify responsibilities and roles of the project team
• Outline how the project will be completed with regards to time, cost and performance
• Document the resources needed (human, electronic, external, physical)

2. Use the following tools to manage your projects:

• Team cooperation checklist
• Planning and organizing checklist
• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Gnatt charts
• Critical Path Mapping
• Contingency planning charts
• Follow up evaluation questions

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Leadership – Increasing Team Cooperation –

Creating team spirit, encouraging a cooperative climate and focusing effort are essential to increasing productivity and success.

Five ideas to increase success with team cooperation include:

1. Communicate regarding the problems facing team members in order to help them in making their best contribution.
2. Discuss these issues openly in team meetings.
3. Pay attention to how team members treat each other.
4. Make respect is the foundation for your communication.
5. Apply specific problem solving models to help the team deal with issues and concerns.

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Project Management Skills –

Manage you projects more effectively will lead to achieving goals with respect to schedules and budgets.

Two ideas to increase success with projects include knowing that:

1. Each project needs a project owner. There needs to be someone who is responsible for:

• Approving the team
• Defining the responsibilities
• Providing information
• Providing resources
• Clarifying important issues
• Communication between departments

2. Each project needs a clear statement of the expected outcomes, the approach, the timelines and the budget.  Do not start until the initial planning process has provided a statement that has the sponsor’s approval.

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Leadership – Increasing Team Cooperation –

Effective teams increase productivity and success! Build team spirit; ensure a cooperative climate; direct group effort to ensure a winning organization.

Three ideas to increase success with team cooperation include:

1. Make sure that team members understand the big picture.
2. Make sure that team members understand how they can contribute to the solution.
3. Make sure that team members are aware of the value of contributions of the other team members.

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Negotiating Skills –

Negotiation is part of every interaction.

Four ideas to increase negotiating success include:

1. Identify your limits – Know “when to fold ‘em” i.e. when to walk away.
2. Use silence to gain more information and more power.
3. Think of compromise …the 50/50 split, as your fallback strategy.
4. Collaboration, where you both discover common ground and mutual benefits is the best approach
5. Ask questions like:

• What will it take to make a deal?
• What will it take to fix this conflict?
• What will it take to gain your trust?
• What will it take to make you happy you?
• What will it take to resolve this?

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Leadership Skills – Providing Feedback  –

Helpful feedback lets people know how they’re doing.

Deliver it well and it will do the following for your team:

1. Let people know how they’re doing
2. Show you’re there to help
3. Provide recognition
4. Provide support
5. Increase morale
6. Boost motivation
7. Fix performance problems

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