Engaged, high-performing teams are built differently depending on the situation, the team’s current dynamics and your experience as a manager. Use the resources below as you build your team.
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Tips for Team Building
First time manager? Review and apply these three pillars of success:
- Make the mental shift – From it’s all about me; to it’s about you and me
- Achieve results differently – With and through others
- Proactively communicate – Empower through communication
- Conduct a listening campaign
- Promote a shared vision
- Seek feedback and input from others
- Meet with each team member one-on-one
- Hold a collaborative team planning meeting
- Proactively communicate
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Tools for Team Building
Recommendations For Team Building
- Want to be a high achieving team? Team Development
- Learn to hold yourself and your team accountable and accomplish more by setting goals: Goal Setting
- Build trust among your team and learn how to be viewed as trustworthy: Trust
- Embrace mistakes as opportunities to improve and encourage others to do the same: Learning Agility
- Discover, dream, design and deliver a positive work environment: Appreciative Inquiry
Programs for Team Building
- Blaze Leadership Academy: A selective program that prepares high potential faculty and staff to become stewards of UAB’s future