How to manage work within a team

How to manage work within a team

1. Setting targets

   • SMART Targets - Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound.
   • Team Factors: Experience, skills, previous achievements, aspirations, developmental needs and workload
   • Business Factors: Business objectives, priorities, resources- physical, human, budgetary
   • Performance measurements for individuals/teams to show their contribution of work to the organisation
     • Quality, quantity, meeting deadlines and expectations
   • Learning- individual/ team development needs to meet overall performance targets

2. Techniques to monitor the flow of work in a team

   • Project management techniques
     • Set team/individual performance/learning objectives
     • Monitor deadlines, work and project milestones
     • Progress reporting
     • Gannt charts to monitor project schedules
     • key performance indicators
     • Benchmarking against successful teams or projects
     • setting and monitoring milestones
     • Work measurement

3. Techniques to identify and solve problems within a team

   • Problems
     • Lack of cohesion , loss of team members, unmotivated team members
     • Conflict, weak leadership, authorisation leadership, poor management
     • Poor panning, too many of the Belbin role
     • Reduction in productivity
     • signs of stress
     • Missed deadlines
   • Identify problems
     • Observations, appraisals
     • 1:1 Meetings, staff absences
     • Monitor quantity and quality of work
     • KPIs
   • Techniques to solve problems
     • Team briefings, 1:1 meetings
     • Team review meetings
     • Succession planning
     • Goal setting
     • rewards
     • coaching
     • team planning meetings