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3 Tips for Building a Team that Builds Success

Guest post by: Anne Bachrach

Article Overview: As a business owner, it is important to be observant of the strengths and weaknesses of your team. This is why it’s vital to keep a running strength and weakness list for you and your team. Revisit the list at least once per quarter and update it as needed. Consistently refine processes and procedures that employ the strengths of you and your team, while minimizing the weaknesses. The more consistent you are in this endeavor the more efficient and effective your business will grow.

3 Tips for Building a Team that Builds Success

If you want to learn how to build a team that builds success, you will want to take a look at the big picture. Take any successful entrepreneur, and behind him or her, you will find a well-suited team of supportive, knowledgeable, and energetic members all dedicated to increasing the success of the business.

Tip #1 for building a team that builds success. If you’re trying to understand how to build a team that builds success, you should first pinpoint the mission of the business. When you can clearly identify and emotionally connect with the mission, you are able to identify the right people who are best-suited to support the success of the business.

Let’s say you need an assistant to travel with you to help you with live events such as seminars. That team member should have the following qualities:

- reliable and punctual

- great organizer and detailed oriented

- loves traveling and meeting new people

Action Step

Revisit your professional mission statement. If it doesn’t “sit right” with you or isn’t specific enough, rewrite it. Your mission statement should always begin with benefits to your clients (and who those clients are), followed by reasons. It should always invoke some meaning for you, as in a personal mission.

Tip #2 for building a team that builds success. Think about the areas of your business where you struggle and could obviously use the help. Make a list of those tasks you would like or need help with and then look for those strengths in potential candidates.

Action Step

Learning to become clear on the strengths and weaknesses of the business can make a huge difference in its success. Taking a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle. List the strengths on the left and weaknesses on the right. For instance, say your client base isn’t growing as fast as you’d like because you are not effective at closing sales.

In this case, hiring a team member that is adept at closing the sale would be highly desired. They would need to have an out-going, personable personality, backed up with a solid sales record.

On the other hand, if you need someone to handle the administrative backend, you will want to hire a team member who is detail-oriented, prefers to stay behind the scenes, and exhibits a reliable consistency.

Tip #3 for building a team that builds success. You should have a good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each individual member - including your own! You may have to do some experimenting to find the right match, but if you pay attention, you will build a team that supports you - and each other.

Action Step

Understanding your own and your team’s personal strengths and weaknesses can give you a clear picture of what is missing from your business, and why it isn’t growing. A business must contain all the pieces necessary for it to grow and prosper. If you’re missing just one piece, it will not be operating at its potential.

As a business owner, it is important to be observant of the strengths and weaknesses of your team. This is why it’s vital to keep a running strength and weakness list for you and your team. Revisit the list at least once per quarter and update it as needed. Consistently refine processes and procedures that employ the strengths of you and your team, while minimizing the weaknesses. The more consistent you are in this endeavor the more efficient and effective your business will grow.

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