10 Tips on Leading Teams in the 21st Century

Written by Jim M. Allen


In our ever-changing business world, one thing that rarely changes in our desire to create successful business teams. However, team building and team leading techniques do change. You can't lead a team inrepparttar 21st centuryrepparttar 106535 same way you did inrepparttar 106536 last century -- not if you want to have a winning team, that is.

Here are ten tips on team leading that I've collected from some of today's most innovative leaders...

1. Make sure that your team is a team, and not a group.

There is a difference... Do you know it? If not, try reading The Top 10 Key Differences Between a Team of Individuals and a Group of Individuals at TopTen.org.

2. You don't build a team. It builds itself.

What you can do, however, is createrepparttar 106537 environment forrepparttar 106538 team to flourish and assemble itself.

3. Team members must share a vision.

Team members must value a win forrepparttar 106539 team more than they do a win for themselves.

4. Keep your teams as small as possible.

Big teams are difficult to lead and have more problems communicating a shared vision.

5. Teams must be able to think and act fast.

Ten Tips to Designing Training

Written by Jim M. Allen


Developing training on specific processes or procedures in your company? The following points will help you design a fun and effective program.

1. Keep it 'lean and mean.' You want your training to be just long enough to teachrepparttar participants what they need to know, no longer or shorter than that. Figure out exactly what that information is and build your training course around that.

2. Chooserepparttar 106534 best format to deliverrepparttar 106535 training. Can a simple 1-hour lecture dorepparttar 106536 job? Or do you need to record repparttar 106537 class on videotape? Does it need to be 1-on-1 training or classroom training? For every different subject there's going to be a different need, so consider them all before choosing one.

3. Remember different people learn different ways. Some people learn better by simply reading, others need to hear repparttar 106538 information, many need visual examples, and most people need a variety of all of these in order to retainrepparttar 106539 information. As you create your class, figure out how to providerepparttar 106540 same information in these different ways so that more people will get it.

4. Make it interactive. The straight lecture-only type classes will rarely getrepparttar 106541 job done these days. The old pedagogical "I talk, you listen" style of teaching doesn't result in a lot of knowledge gain byrepparttar 106542 student. Work on exercises, drills, and role-plays that getrepparttar 106543 student involved inrepparttar 106544 class and help them learn by doing.

5. Keep it light. In a classroom environment, humor almost always helps. People retain more and learn more if they are relaxed and having fun. Evenrepparttar 106545 most serious training programs benefit from a good dose of humor. Just make sure it's appropriate.

6. Holdrepparttar 106546 training inrepparttar 106547 proper environment. It's hard to learn if you're uncomfortable, regardless of how good a course may be. Findrepparttar 106548 perfect place to conductrepparttar 106549 training. That should be someplace with adequate lighting, seating, heating/air conditioning and minimal distractions (preferably none at all).

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