If a company was the clones gathering, it could not develop. Indeed, each post requires different qualities. Thus an accountant must be rigorous and a creative having imagination. However, trusting people so different and sometimes in contrast to its character is for sine qua non is hardly easy. Focus to establish unfailing confidence in your teams.
Difficult to trust others when your personality encourages you to control everything
Trusting your teams depends on multiple factors both on a personal level, in terms of work organization and that of developing effective and efficient management that requires you to become a leader that you want to follow. Your confidence is already in the choice of recruitment and involves engaging in diversity to have the maximum of innovative ideas and to stop questioning to inspire its teams.
Engage better than you.
A business that works is above all a company with employees who are effective. When you think about recruitments, remember that this is investment and that you often have to surround yourself with the best for the company to go faster. Leave your ego aside and do not look for profiles that would only replace you without adding added value. In any case, you cannot be the most competent everywhere and you cannot do everything. Choose, among the candidates who offer you, those who have skills or know-how that you do not have. If the idea can scare some entrepreneurs, these new elements will allow you to challenge your box and make it improvements and progress that you may not have thought.
Keep in mind that performance does not remain the only criterion and that new recruits will have to share the same values as you. Recruitment remains a difficult choice and you will need to check that new employees are also an excellent contribution in team dynamics. Above all, do not recruit people who do not adapt to corporate culture and your values.
Remember that a company is above all a group of people.
A company is not simply characterized by its premises or its business model. It is in global execution that it takes on its full dimension. Above all, it remains a group of people working in the same direction. The men and women who compose it create the value of services or products. At the risk of repeating again what has been said previously, managers must not only pay attention to the profitability of the company, however important it may be!
Management represents one of the keys to business success and reports within a team often condition its effectiveness. Doubts, frustrations, jealousies, personal problems, questions … can quickly affect the performance of the business. To avoid a loss of productivity, inject good humor and make sure that the aggregates of personalities and egos do not destroy your business. Put in place activities that unite your teams. You don’t know how to assess? The percentage of turnover is often a good indicator.
Trust your team a minimum.
One thing is certain, you cannot do everything and control everything! The more the structure grows, the more difficult you will be to know what everyone accomplishes. Bringing your confidence to your team can stimulate it and intensify its desire to work to show you that it is worthy of your confidence. An entrepreneur is above all someone who knows how to delegate the tasks for which he will not be effective. But the delegation can be a complicated art because the loss of control is always anxiety -provoking.
If you cannot immediately trust, start by delegating stages by step certain tasks that seem the least risky. Look if the execution is going well and if your employees are exposed to risk taking. Then give increasingly important tasks as confidence is installed. Do not forget to communicate openly and honestly with each member, while granting them the same freedom. Do not be intransigent and leave the right to make mistakes.
Try not to be essential anymore.
As strange as it may seem, your goal must be to create an entity that can work without you. For what ? Because if your structure depends too much on you, it may well be that it does not survive or that it is doing badly when you are on vacation or if you fall sick. First take into account that “no one is irreplaceable”, including you. If this does not clear you or should not allow you to flee your responsibilities, you must understand how to empower your business and make it flexible on any occasion. This is so that each of your departures abroad or each of your absences does not turn into a real ordeal for your teams and your holidays really allow you to recharge your batteries.
Identify the competent people
To get there, you will first have to identify the people on your team who are competent and to which you can delegate certain tasks. Take into account that a company that turns without its manager remains a healthy business that has learned to walk with its two feet. Let go so that the company turns properly when you are not there and that you can devote yourself to the future development and the analysis of the strategy.
Inspire your team.
In order for your teams to follow you and help you in the development of the company, remember that they must join your values. Useless to invent them and have a plethora of them, they must reflect a real sense of the values that you embody and have the function of supporting the strategy of the company but are used to drive them in one direction. To strengthen your impact, tell them about the story of business life.
Use the storytelling to show the success of your business with your customers, investors, the media but even more with your teams! They will be brought together around the same project and the same vision! The stories are traveling much further than you think and project you into the future. By creating an adventure they are part, you give them audacity. To do this, you will have to make your story tasty to stir up with your employees the desire to participate in writing the continuation and being part of it.