Successfully managing a new team

Here are the steps that you will need to follow when managing a team in the workplace.

Step one:

You are going to need to identify all of your team goals. The best way to go about doing this is to meet with your supervisors to find out what they expect from your team. You are going to need to make sure that you understand what you are going to be responsible for, but you also want to find out how your supervisors are going to measure the performance of your team. To ensure that you know what is expected of you and your teams you need to write down the important goals and measurement methods that your supervisors want you to use make sure you get their agreement after writing this information down. This information is also useful alter one when you are doing performance reviews and trying to get raises for you and your team.

Step two:

Determine all of the team members' strengths and weaknesses. To determine their strengths and weaknesses you will want to meet with each team member individually and talk with them. You can also observe their work habits to get a clearer picture of their strengths and weaknesses. In meeting with them you will also want to talk to them about what they like about working with certain people and about work in general because it will give you an idea about the management styles that they work well with and vice versa.

Step three:

As soon as you have gathered, all of the information that you will need for supervising your team you will want to hold a team meeting. The meeting should be used to help build enthusiasm for the team and to encourage team spirit so that everybody will look forward to working together and enjoy working together. During the meeting, you are going to want to explain to each of your team members what their responsibilities are and what goals they have to meet to be part of the team.

Step four:

Even though you have just taken charge of the team you are going to want to identify whom your replacement is, just in case you are sick or out on vacation. When identifying your replacement, you are going to want to use somebody who is currently on the team because they will know everything that is going on already; they will not have to play catch up.

Step five:

Once you have decided who is going to act as your replacement you are going to want to start training them. You want to give those jobs and assignments that are going to give them more responsibility. One way to do that is to give them some management responsibility over a sub-team. You will also want to train the rest of your team about what they should be doing; you can even give them more responsibility so that they start taking more pride in their work.

Step six:

Schedule regular meetings with your team members so that you can communicate about what is going on. Having regular meetings will allow you to talk about any problems that are going on with job assignments or any concerns that your team members have. Knowing about them early will allow you to take the appropriate steps to handle the problem before it gets out of control.

Step seven:

Finally, you are going to need to watch out for any changes at the business that might affect your team. This can include new projects, projects that are being canceled, cutbacks on staff, among others. To stay in the loop you are going to have to stay in contact with people in management and human resources, so you can be made aware of any new situations as they occur.