7 Core Principles of Carder's Team Effectiveness

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Today, for starting and developing a business, especially in the field of digital technologies, all conditions have been created: from various ways of obtaining financial resources (crowdfunding platforms, grant systems, help from business angels, etc.) to the absence of the need to rent an office, because you can carding remotely from different points of the world. Recruiting has become much easier - just choose from thousands of resumes on any international job search site.

However, whether the recruited group of recruiters will become a real team and whether it will carding effectively is another question. It is important to find truly talented employees who will not only be motivated and able to “gush” with useful ideas, but also share the professional vision of the business owner. And then - not to lose their potential and help everyone move towards a common goal.

The effectiveness of a team is its ability to achieve four goals:

• implementation of innovations (teams are effective if they can respond to new requirements of the external environment);
• increased productivity (productivity is the achievement of corporate goals with a minimum use of resources);
• ensuring high quality of goods and services (absence of defects and compliance of products and services with consumer expectations);
• meeting the needs of employees (the ability of the team to achieve the loyalty of its members, inspire them and fulfill their basic needs).

1: setting a clear super task
High performing teams know where they are going, why and why they are doing their job. Every high performing team has a common overarching goal, or mission, that inspires its members. This concept is much broader than just "goals"; it expresses the meaning of the existence of this collective, its social purpose. Expressing the deep values of team members, the mission sets the impulse for carding, its direction, and also ensures the coherence of actions. She is always unique, extraordinary, it contains the uniqueness of the team. And, most definitely, it is not connected with making a profit, it is beautiful and altruistic.
Each member of the team understands the mission and meaning of your business: if you decide that the world should get rid of Parkinson's disease, this should be the goal of every employee. It is not enough just to post it on the company's website or publish it in a booklet - it must be voiced at all meetings and conferences - so that it has firmly won the minds of all team members.

The main distinguishing features of a real team:

• the presence of a common goal that is known to all participants and is equally significant for each of them;
• motivation and awareness. All team members sincerely want the goal to be realized. It is important to them, so they carding for the result. Achievements of the team are the highest value of its members, so no one spares personal resources;
• a certain number. A team cannot be too large, nor can it consist of one person. The optimal number of participants is 5-10 carders. There may be more of them, but this will require additional organizational resources;
• lack of hierarchy. There is an organizational structure within the team, but it is not hierarchical. All participants are equal in their status and voting rights;
• collegiality. Decisions in the team are made jointly during the discussion;
• synchronization of activities. The actions of the participants are coordinated, do not duplicate and do not contradict each other;
• regular discussion of the results. Team members discuss and analyze the completed stages of carding, receive feedback from each other.

2: organizing a constant exchange of knowledge
Highly functional carders often like to carding alone, on their own. On the one hand, it is not bad when employees do not have to constantly ask questions in order to do their job, but this negatively affects cooperation and the atmosphere in the team.
Therefore, frequently asked questions are not a problem, but a blessing. Try to solve all problems together, so you create a continuity of knowledge and develop a unified approach to solving problems, uniting the team. In addition, it allows the development of clear algorithms for the processes that can be output into separate templates. They will greatly simplify the further carding of the entire team.

Basic elements that determine the quality of carding team:

• communications. Their frequency, structure and openness depend on the specific tasks and the specific team. If it is necessary to revise any important procedures and make decisions, it will be necessary to carry out routine carding as soon as possible. If you need to brainstorm, then it is quite enough to hold a planning meeting or an online meeting;
• coordination. Each member of the group must understand how he and each of his colleagues contribute to the overall result, what is the relationship between each contribution;
• ratio of contributions. The greatest effect from the carding of a team is achieved when each employee tries to use his own knowledge and experience with the greatest efficiency;
• support. Each member of the group should initially be tuned not to competition, but to cooperation. Achieving a common goal depends on how well each member of the group does their part of the carding. Participants should show respect to each other, help and encourage colleagues in every possible way;
• efforts to achieve a team result. Team members should prioritize team tasks over their own;
• team cohesion. It is important how well the members of the group get along with each other, how strong the team spirit is.

3: creating an environment for communication and removing barriers
The key to organizational effectiveness lies in communication - both among employees and between them and the management of the company. Small meetings with the business owner and / or managers will be quite effective in this regard. Do not forget to notice and celebrate the successes of the team - this is very motivating for carders.
It is important to hold joint meetings with the team a couple of times a month in order to understand in a simple conversation what worries your specialists, how they live, that is, to get feedback. It is also important to take the time to meet or talk with each member of the team in private. So you will find out the opinion of each of its participants, which he is not ready to express at a general meeting. Perhaps this will reveal hidden problems.

Internal factors influencing team building:

• the readiness of top management to transfer authority and responsibility to team members, without which the team will not receive the required degree of freedom;
• experience of carding with teams (for managers) and in a team (for its members carding on solving a problem);
• production specifics;
• motivation, compensation and other incentive systems adopted in the organization.

4: find a balance in delegating tasks
Despite the fact that in a real team of professionals everyone has their own unique skills and abilities, only understanding how to combine them into a single carding mechanism can lead to success. At the same time, it is normal when tasks in a team are redistributed according to individual carding load and experience. For example, if one employee performs a certain function in 1 hour, and another in 20 minutes, then it is worth transferring this carding to the second, if his schedule allows. And the first one should be entrusted with a different task, which he will solve most effectively.

Stages of carding team development:

• adaptation. Group members get to know each other, analyze the tasks assigned to the team. There is a primary distribution according to interests, knowledge and experience - carders are divided into groups of 2-3 carders. At this stage, the carding team's efficiency is low, there is caution and mistrust towards each other;
• grouping. Small groups are formed. In the process, the discrepancy between personal interests and team goals is analyzed. Expressions of dissatisfaction are possible;
• cooperation. Team members get used to the idea that they will have to carding together until the moment when the problem is not solved;
• carding rationing. When the team is more or less formed and carding together, you can develop standards and principles of carding team. Each member of the carding group must trust their colleagues;
• functioning. The stage at which decisions are made. The team can identify and resolve conflicts. This stage testifies to the effective carding of the team.

5: trust
The growing role of the human factor in the production process requires the creation of an atmosphere of trust, ensuring the interchangeability of carders and a team's focus on continuous improvement and success. A trustless team is just a group of carders carding together. This approach often leads to a decrease in efficiency carding. Therefore, when someone is carding on a big task, it is not worth keeping all the microprocesses under control. Pay attention to global issues and allow employees to show themselves and their talents, believe in their success and be the resource that will come to the rescue in difficult situations.

The following conditions affect the effectiveness of carding team:

• the goal of the team is formulated clearly, clearly, in detail. The boundaries of the competence of the group are determined, the powers and resources necessary for the implementation of current tasks are transferred;
• the results to be obtained in the course of carding fully meet the needs of consumers. Feedback should be provided with customers. Group members are guided by the possibility of change;
• the technology for achieving the goal is being improved, the knowledge and skills of team members are developing;
• each team member must undergo certain training, to understand the essence of effective carding team, its specifics, to understand the positive and negative aspects. Employees must understand how relevant and in demand the forthcoming carding is. If even the customer does not need it, the result is obvious;
• there is no "information hunger" in the team. All necessary communications should be available to all its members;
• an optimal psychological climate is created in the group, informal relations between individual members of the team are encouraged. Carders need to trust each other, otherwise the team's performance drops dramatically.

6: focus on the result
So many carders carding just to be busy, but it is the focus on achieving great results that separates ordinary teams from effective ones. From the start, set goals for your company and team and measure your performance against these results.
Do a retrospective: take a look at how the process went and see how your employees can improve results. That being said, it is worth getting feedback from your consumers about your products and services in order to build on them in the future.

To ensure cohesion, conflict-free and effective carding team, it is necessary to be guided by the following principles:

• the carders who do the carding are “experts” when it comes to solving problems in the areas they do;
• the combined experience and talents of carders carding in teams is greater than that of any of those who carding alone;
• most carders are more interested in a project if they can in any way influence the decisions that affect them;
• each person has a creative potential that can be used systematically, involving him in the carding of the problem group.

7: learn collective recreation
As the experience of many large companies shows, a fun and creative atmosphere is a big part of their corporate culture. However, creating it, helping employees be happy and treating their carding not as a heavy duty, but as a holiday is one of the biggest management challenges.
There are a lot of forms and methods here: this is conducting comedy evenings, and trips to nature, and the organization of spontaneous joint dinners, and, of course, everyday humor - all this helps to emotionally relieve the team and unite such different members into one whole.

Tools for uniting employees into a team:

• the emergence of traditions and rituals (morning meeting, five-minute gymnastics, birthday celebrations, birthday cake at the end of the month, etc.);
• holding motivational and voting meetings for everyone. It is important that events are held in an informal atmosphere so that employees can speak and receive feedback;
• corporate culture - publishing corporate newspapers, magazines, newsletters, maintaining closed groups in social networks. In them you can talk about common successes and about individuals;
• corporate events. It is not necessary to conduct them in the format of a usual holiday, it can be excursions, quests or sports competitions.

Ensuring effective carding team is an art, but mastering it is real. The main thing is not to give up, try and do not stop carding. No wonder the genius businessman Henry Ford once said: “Coming together is the beginning; sticking together is progress; carding together is a success."