TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More

The word of this past week was TEAM. Every day I seemed to be reading or hearing about another small business closing due to the lack employees and/or turnover. Although I know a lot of factors go into the shortage of employees, I do know that it is an employee market and if you aren't bringing the best culture and leadership to your business, you could be facing a breakdown in the success of your team.
After meeting with my business coach, Kelly, Resiliency Coaching, for the 3rd version of my business plan for Goenner Consulting, LLC, I am ready to return to my career of building strong teams.

Here are three characteristics that a strong team should have.

RESILIENT
We are experiencing unprecedented situations in our world right now. Both leadership and employees must be able to navigate their personal and professional situations and be resilient. How can you build a resilient culture? Feeling safe is the most important atmosphere that can cultivate resilient teams. Also leadership that is able to be authentic and open to change and innovation, even if they don't like it.

COMMITTED
People are committed when they see what is in it for them. Many of the new generations entering the workforce aren't interested in working just for a paycheck, but want to know what are they contributing to. Businesses that are able to have employees be involved in community activities will see more committed employees. Being able to support employees who are going through difficult personal seasons can also strengthen a team to be committed.

SUCCESSFUL
Team success can have a lot of variables. For the business owner it could be the bottom-line financially, for the employee it could be that they are growing in their career and for managers it could be that their team is able to make their goals. No matter what the measure of success, the business will be successful when all measures of success are celebrated.
Is your team broken? Are you frustrated by high-turnover and/or low performing employees? Make sure to follow me as I will be pouring out my heart as I pivot my consulting to focus on building resilient, committed and successful teams.

Thank you for reading.
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P.S. Did you know we have YouTube, check out a video from this morning.