Team Productivity and Effectiveness improvement checklist

Increase Employee Accountability:

• Make employees feel responsible for results of their work - involve them into planning and decision-making.
• Make sure that your employees understand your business strategy and their day-to-day responsibilities are aligned with it.
• Support employee self-regulation and initiative.
• Make sure that employees participate in the company mission.
• Develop employee leadership.

Improve Team Environment:

• Make the team members feel valued and respected for the jobs they do.
• Ensure generally free, pleasant and quiet atmosphere, so psychological pressure does not arise.
• Allow all team members actively take part in discussions, so various points of view can be explained freely.
• Allow criticism when it is constructive and directed to overcoming the difficulties.
• Allow free flow of ideas among all members of your team - ideas should be carefully selected for practical use, then assessed, tested and implemented in practice.

Improve Team Organization:

• Ensure proper leadership practice - the head of the team should lead the team, but not dominate over the team
• Ensure that highest authority within your team is the professional competence.
• Avoid hierarchical manner of communication - establish direct, fast two-way communication.
• Make sure that all team members are well-informed about long-term and short-term business objectives and agree with them.
• Manage your team in goal-oriented manner - set individual goals for team members.
• Moreover, his/her role can decrease according to situation. Some of team members which are more competent in certain fields can inherit part of team leader's duties when it is required.

Improve Work Behaviors and Organization:

• Define what employee behaviors are required to perform jobs in the best way.
• Establish concentration on controlling results.
• Establish objective job performance standards.
• Ensure that your employees know how you measure their performance.
• Establish adequate control - controlling should be performed by those who possess the necessary and appropriate information and competence.
• Provide good work instructions and guide employees if required, but do not command what to do - empower them to be creative and make decisions.
• Arrange regular on-the-job trainings to improve employees' knowledge, skills and capabilities.

     Improve Motivation:

• Make sure that besides money motivation the employees get moral encouragements regularly.
• Make sure that those who make the greater contribution into business prosperity get the greater reward.
• Make sure that system of remunerations is perceived by employees as fair.
• Encourage employees to develop their ...

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