Establishing A High Performance Work Team

Establishing A High Performance Work Team
by Takara Alexis

Guiding a successful group begins with employing the right people. If imagination is all about looking at things differently, then putting together a group of people who obtain a variation of nationalities can create ideas and produce energy. But you have to be sure that your workers are on the same page as you socially.

If you are employed at a corporate environment, you should find a way to rearrange the work environment to be more appealing to workers. You don't want to enforce strict, uncompromising standards unless you strive to have bureaucratic, unrelenting products. Plenty of space, well lit areas, wall art, and maybe some silly decor are essential to aiding with the process of creativity.

People that are very creative themselves know that the creative process is not linear and acting like employees are workers in a contraption factory might very well backfire. Sometimes a manager lets his team help set their deadlines. This is a good idea because it gives you more ideas to work with and gets more people involved.

The more your employees know about whats happening in the world around them the more they can understand the decisions that clients make. Therefore, it's important you discuss whats currently going on in the economy with your team, as well as whats roiling in the industry. For inspiration and fun motivation you can also try organizing social events as well as hiring some guest speakers.

Allowing employees to take creative leaps while also realizing it is important to remain focused on the task at hand, can lead to big rewards. Don't focus all of your attention on short deadlines. It leaves less room for trial and error, as well as coming up with better ideas when a person knows they don't have that much time to complete a task.

Having to be creative when told can be psychologically and emotionally tiring. Like fifth-grade teachers all over, smart managers know the worth of recess in working off a lot of that built up energy. They know that a baseball is just as important to the office as a fax, that a pizza pie, applied in the right way, goes a great distance toward problem solving, and that when the team is lacking inspiration, a game of paintball may be the solution.