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"Team Improvement Template"

This Team Improvement template enables you to identify areas in which your team can improve.

As a manager, you are likely never completely satisfied with the performance of your team. Sure, you might be pleased that they have gotten all of the tasks done that you requested, but it seems there will forever be room for further growth. That really is the challenge when leading any group of people - praise them for their accomplishments while simultaneously asking for more. The best way to ask them to achieve more is to be specific in your identifying of key areas that the team can improve on. When you take to them a detailed list of points for improvement, your request is much more likely to be well-received.

Pinpointing which areas the team could improve on is actually much simpler than you might believe. It is important to have a system for locating areas that need improvement so that too much time does not pass while you are waiting for performance to get better. A basic four step process can be used to find areas for team improvement and quickly have them become a focus of the team as a whole:

• Step One: Create a Measuring System
• Step Two: Correlate Performance Areas to Team Members
• Step Three: Hold Individual Meetings
• Step Four: Decide between Internal and External Improvements

Constant improvement of your team, or teams, is what can separate you from the rest of the managers in your organization. A nice blend of praise and expectation will keep your team hungry for more and working hard to accomplish all of the goals that are in place for the team as a whole.

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