Team Membership and Roles (Unit 9 P3)
Unit 9: Teambuilding in Business. Resources for BTEC Business Studies
How do you ensure that the members of your team have the skills to most effectively achieve your vision? How can you ensure that you allocate roles within your team effectively? How do you most effectively allocate a team leader? How do you decide on the most effective lines of authority?
Some important steps to allocating membership and roles are recruitment, training, support and communication.
Recruitment should involve an analysis of your existing team. What skills do your current team hold? What are the skill gaps you need to fill? What is the culture of your team? What kind of person would best fit that culture and enhance it further? How can you adapt your recruitment processes to ensure you find out the skills and attributes of an applicant to make the best appointment?
Training should be an ongoing process within team management to enhance skills and get the most out of your team. Having a good induction process can help new recruits settle in quickly and get productive faster. Ongoing skills analysis can ensure your team is capable of better outcomes and can adapt to a changing environment.
Ongoing support ensures that your team are engaged, feel valued and are more effective in their roles. Coaching and mentoring involved leaders regularly and openly developing a team member. Conversations about how workers are feeling and supporting them in setting their own development goals can create an effective and supportive environment.
Open and regular communication allows clarity of vision from leadership which supports the creation of a sense of purpose and clarity of what is expected. It allows team members to communicate issues they are facing so solutions are reached more readily, ideas are shared which can lead to innovation and creates a sense of value which is motivating.
