How to build your team in the workplace!

Building a team in the workplace is very key, and it is what every leader must make deliberate efforts in doing. It is your duty as a leader to make sure your team is successful. To achieve this, there is need for motivation, when your team is motivated to do a better job, the work will be easier, more fun, and more dynamic. In order to motivate your team to succeed, you have to be a strong leader and to give people both individual attention and to recognize them as a team.
Here are steps to help your team stay motivated:
Take communication seriously
Communication occurs when someone understands you, not just when you speak. One of the biggest dangers with communication is that we can work on the assumption that the other person has understood the message we are trying to get across.
Poor communication in the workplace can lead to a culture of back stabbing and blame, which, in turn, can affect our stress levels, especially when we don’t understand something or feel we have been misled. It also can have a positive effect on morale when it works well and motivates individuals to want to come into work and do a great job.
In building your team, you must know effective communication is key, and that it is the heart of any great relationship. Try as much as possible to carry everyone along. You should also remember that communication goes beyond face-to-face interaction, sending letters, sending emails and others are means of communicating too, and you must learn to use them to your advantage. A break in communication or misunderstanding may cause a big setback for your team, so be careful!

 
Discuss the positive outcomes
If you want your team to be motivated, then you have to explain the positive outcomes of achieving the objective. By doing this, you are putting the control over their future compensation or other rewards into their own hands. Your team should see how their success would benefit not only the company, but also each individual team member. If you really want to motivate them, then you have to make your goals are as concrete as possible so they can feel a tangible reward.

 
Set realistic goals
Know what your team is capable of and set a goal that they can actually reach. It’s good to be ambitious when setting goals, but if you make them so challenging that your team is destined to fail, then everyone will only feel discouraged. Establish a realistic goal and provide a tool that shows their progress as they get closer to attaining that goal. Setting micro-goals along the way is also a great way to ensure success, so your team doesn’t feel like it’s all or nothing.
Create friendly competition
Create a competitive environment that will inspire your team members to achieve their goals. Have small competitions with tangible rewards, even if it’s just a free lunch, to get people excited about why they are putting in their efforts. This can help your team exceed its own expectations, as long as you make the guidelines clear and make sure that people are getting along.
You can break your team up into smaller teams and have them each be responsible for an aspect of the complete goal. Introduce an incentive that will inspire them, but make it a friendly competition and not one that brings about hostility and back stabbing.
Make sure you know your team members well enough individually first to see that this won’t make people turn on each other. A great way to get team members to know each other is to create mini-teams of people who don’t know each other so well.
Praise and recognise their effort if need be
As a leader, when you do catch someone doing something well, praise the individual where others will hear. It is better to praise the action than the person. Other employees will then not think you are praising someone who is in your good books but praising a good action.

 
By doing this, team members know that their individual efforts will be noticed and not lost as a team effort. This will inspire all members to do their share. If members know that they will only be rewarded and recognized as a team, they may be more inclined to hide behind the efforts of others. This, in turn, may cause resentment amongst those who did all the work.
Take the time to check in individually with all of the members of the team so that they know that you recognize their strengths and are there to help them through their weaknesses. They’ll also feel like you care enough to take the time to address each person individually.
Keep your team interested
Build a sense of curiosity within your team members’ mindsets so that that they are interested enough to want to achieve the goals you expect. By doing this, your team members will want to learn more. This can be achieved if you understand what excites or interests your team members. Get to know what matters most to the members as a team and as individuals. If you keep things interesting and exciting by mentioning concrete goals, changes, and improvements, they will want to keep working.
Don’t just tell your team members what to do. Keep them interested and up-to-date on as much of the company process as you can so that they care about what’s happening and have questions about the process.