A Beginner’s Guide To Building A Solid Team

Every year, a huge number of businesses are launched, and the unfortunate truth is that some of them will fail. Why is it that some businesses thrive and grow while most close up shop within a few years? There are many factors, including access to capital, understanding one’s marketplace, an ability to innovate, and lastly, some good old-fashioned luck, all of which impact businesses. While these factors may be difficult to control, there is one that nearly all business owners can manage to directly determine long-term business success. That factor is hiring the right people and merging them into a successful and powerful team. Finao Management has been in the marketing and sales industry for a while, and we have the experience and skill necessary to teach you how a solid team is built successfully.

Getting Started
Hire professionals: When you hire professionals in their respective fields, you can be sure that they are bringing in with them a few years of training and experience in their area. A person with prior experience will also have references for you to get in touch with to figure out if they have what it takes to be in your team. Hiring the right people is the most important part of building a strong team, of course, and delegating to give people more autonomy is a powerful motivator.

List your goals: Leaders owe their teams an answer to the questions, “Where are we going?” and “How are we going to get there?” In other words, what is the goal, and how are we going to measure progress along the way? Having an idea of what you are expecting out of your team will help you guide them in the right direction and simultaneously make it easier for them to follow your steps.

Next Steps
Be patient: Each team member can produce results at a certain pace. Likewise, the entire team can only be as productive as the individuals within that team. Rushing your team members can hamper productivity as it sometimes puts unnecessary pressure on them. Improving productivity with patience will be beneficial in the short and long term.

Maintain a good work ethic: Great work ethics will allow you to clearly define the team goals and objectives, putting them in precise perspective and focus. They become more understandable hence eliminating confusion among the team members. Efforts are directed towards the goals, and hence the performance of the employees improves.

Introduce mentorship: Mentorship enables mentees to see what great leadership looks like, as the mentor is technically leading them using soft leadership skills to effectively communicate and encourage them and drive them forward, and hard leadership skills to hold them accountable for real progress. A good mentor will know how to draw a mentee out of their comfort zone into more leadership-oriented environments and scenarios.

Advice From The Pros
Trust the process: Once you have laid down the groundwork for building a successful team, it is now important for you to patiently carry out the process and have faith in it. If you do not have faith in it, then you won’t be able to commit to it completely and are doomed from the start. Remember, the process also takes patience, and even if you don’t get it right the first time, embrace failure and learn to grow from it. Once you have created a system, stick to it as long as it works.

Don’t be a know-it-all: A know-it-all leader believes that maintaining their value depends on them knowing more than everyone else. If they fail in this, they fear getting replaced by someone else who knows more than they do. This is why know-it-all leaders take new ideas as a challenge to their authority. If someone has a better idea than them, they are a failure. This in no way helps build a successful team as a successful team looks up to its leader to guide them.

Believe in yourself: The best leaders are those who lead people to believe in themselves. People believe in themselves when they have a reason to commit to something significant and meaningful. As long as you believe in what you can do and your skillset, you will attract the right people. When you believe in yourself, you believe in your team, and this further gets your team to believe in themselves. And when that happens, you can achieve great things together.

If you are looking for a sales and marketing agency in Ohio, then reach out to us at Finao Management. We pride ourselves on being a sports-minded, competitive, and fun organization known for working with some well-known businesses across a varied set of industries and sharing a solid relationship with them while constantly building new ones. We have helped every client achieve their tailored marketing needs and business objectives with a seamless marketing approach. In our initial meeting with clients, we soak all the information about their brand and understand their philosophy, mission, and goals. We educate ourselves on what makes them different and who their target audiences are. We serve clients across Dayton, Eaton, Camden, Oxford, Miamisburg, Middletown, Lebanon, Wilmington, Blanchester, Cincinnati, and the surrounding areas. View our full list of services here, or get in touch with us here.