Are you providing leadership to your team? Do you have a good understanding of who does what in your team and how long it takes? Are you inspiring your workers to be more successful? Are you spending all of your time managing paperwork or clients, leaving no time for managing your employees? Are your employees happy and productive? If you aren’t sure about the answers to these questions, why aren’t you? Finally, how could you improve your leadership?

Management books are filled with mentions of teamwork, and the importance of having employees work well together as a team is well understood. The problem is how to make it happen. Generally, the focus is on how managers can bring their teams together. What people forget is that managers themselves are a critical part of the team. Here are ways to make sure you aren’t the missing link in your team.

When you have the right documents to hand, it makes the difference between a smoothly running organisation and a series of ‘rabbit-in-the-headlight’ moments.

Many managers strive to be better leaders with ambitions that go beyond even those lofty aspirations of reducing employee turnover and improving staff productivity. Many of us, though, don’t know how to go about making those change. Here are ways that you can connect with your team and improve their teamwork.   

Businesses rely on teamwork. Getting your staff work together effectively can make all the difference when it comes to getting work done on time, on budget and to standard. Teams can also be a wonderful way to bring together different specialties and make the work more interesting. Alternatively, though, they can result in disorganisation or lost time that people find frustrating. Here are ways to create teams that will work well together and efficiently get work done.

It has become the office mantra: We need to build a strong team. Well, it’s easier said than done, especially for building a team spread out all over the world. The move to globalisation has dramatically transformed how companies operate. Every year, an increasing number of companies make the move to operate teams remotely.

It is common knowledge in the working world that organisations cannot succeed in meeting goals unless the entire team works together for the good of the team. However, defining what makes a team player is quite another discussion. What is a team player and even better, how can you learn how to be a better team player? Software for team collaboration can help us improve our team-first approach to work, but there are some things we can change personally for the good of the team.

The larger a membership base becomes, whether that be internal members, clients or associates, the more resource that will be required to manage your group. Rather than increase staff costs, the provision of a 'Self Service Member Portal' adds value in many ways. This in turn allows you to focus your staff's attention on increasing the service and value offered to your members, resulting in improved engagement and increased retention.

You have heard the term about your workplace: team collaboration. Every workday, someone mentions the term in reference to working on a project or handling a customer complaint. Rarely do your professional peers link team collaboration to innovation, but they should.

Think about what it takes to be successful leader. You want someone who takes charge, without fearing the consequences of making decisions. Great leaders connect with colleagues who follow directions and are empowered to help ensure the achievement of clearly presented goals. In the digital era, great leaders must multitask to keep the team focused on the job at hand. Loyalty, consistency, fairness, courage, and a sense of humour all represent traits that great leaders must possess.