Small-Medium Business: 10 Specific Tips For Building Better Teams

Effective teamwork is important in all business. But it's essential in small-medium business. Large business can absorb the shocks of poor teamwork. Small-medium business is particularly vulnerable to the effects of poor teamwork. Try these techniques.

Let me start by "nailing my colours to the mast". I believe that effective teamwork is important in all business. But it's absolutely essential in small-medium business. The fewer the number of people you have working for you, the more essential and valuable it is that they work together: teamwork. Here's how to develop your workgroups.

1. It's About Team Effectiveness Not Friendship

I've worked in team development for years. My first book about it was published back in 1984. Since then I've become more certain than ever that building effective teams at work is not about "getting on well". It's about working well together to achieve business goals. When the business goals are achieved the team members will learn to like each other. At the very least they'll learn to accommodate each other's personal foibles.

2. The Team Is The Basic Human Unit At Work

For decades, it's been fashionable to laud personal accomplishment in the workplace. Truth is, nobody achieves much at work without a lot of help from others. Effective teamwork cannot occur as long as we focus on individual accomplishmnet. We extol Jane's or Jack's virtues in rising from backroom researcher to Director of Advanced Technology in less than five years. It's easy to forget that lots of other employees co-operated to help Jane or Jack advance.

3. Goal Clarity

The team requires absolutely clear, measurable goals. And each member must agree and accept these goals. We call this goal clarity. If your teams lack goal clarity, you won't be able to measure whether they're successful. The team will misdirect its efforts and that leads to the next tip.

4. Role Clarity

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