16 Ways to Make Your Team Invincible

All great leaders are passionate about leading and building exceptional teams. Have you ever heard of a leader that wishes to lead a mediocre team? Leadership craves perfection and smart subordinates. But it takes a great leader to lead an elite team. You must prove that you are consistent and persistent when it comes to personal and professional development. More than that you must be a genuine person who knows what personal reflection is and takes actions only based on regular feedback.

The proverb “if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together” describes exactly why the need for a leader exists. The greatness of a team begins with its leader – the one who sets the pace. A leader must constantly expand his perception and learn new methods of pushing his team forward. The world is continually changing, and so must the leader. If the leader is rigid his team will quickly fall apart. As you can see managing a team and leading it to success requires an incredible effort from its leader.

Let’s take a look at 16 ways to make your team invincible:

1.    Nurture Their Talents

A great leader will always step aside if needed and allow others to do what they do best. He will never try to control others in order to make them comply but instead, he will encourage genuine collaboration, therefore unleashing abundance and greatness. Trying to control others will put the entire team on the path to failure. Therefore, you must inspire people in order to attain success.

2.    Encourage Them to Make Mistakes

Let them know that in order to grow you must make mistakes. There is no other way to improve! Tell them that timidity is never useful; making mistakes is a gift. Teach them to never feel bad about themselves if they make mistakes. A great business is built on a foundation made of mistakes. Every mistake can be turned into something epic! Not wishing to make mistakes can easily lead to failure.

3.    Help Them Work Together Toward a Revolutionary Goal

Without a common vision, there is no need for a team. The progress begins only when a powerful vision is decided upon. Having a purpose is what keeps the team together while assuring them that they are on the right track. Only when your team starts to work as a group and not as individuals, only then things start to get a meaning. The entire team must focus on a single direction! Failing to do so will lead to failure but this will only help your team be more united.

4.    Develop the Leader Within

Leading by example is the only way of leading smart and efficiently. As the project manager, you’ll have to imprint your habits onto your team members. You should constantly act like an assignment helper . Always be ready to help out your team mates. When you promise something, deliver it. Keeping your word is one of the most important habits that you and your team must develop.

Your team must not see you as an authority but as a friend, someone who is always there for them. Teach them that the true leader is inside and they must grow their inner leader. Always encourage your team members to take the lead in case it’s needed, and they feel competed to do so.

5.   Offer Them Everything They Need to be Successful

The easiest way to find out is to ask them. Even if you may not always be able to give them everything they need you can at least work hard to ensure that they have everything they need. I’m not talking only about physical stuff; I’m talking about emotional support whenever it’s needed. Give them the chance to fail. You heard me right, let them fail and teach them to accept it and rise above it!

6.    Create a Calm and Fun Environment

If the environment is relaxed and cozy everyone will perform better while having a great time. There will be times when your team will face great difficulties; this is where the fun element will make its entrance. Laughing is what helps people get over stressful tasks, therefore, make sure to implement it into your team’s daily schedule. Failing can be fun as well.  Never be scared to fail!

7.    Teach Responsibility

Be that leader that people can trust. A great leader knows that he must develop a strong and genuine reputation and always be true to his word. This is the only way of showing others that they can count on you and expect you to lead them to greatness. A true leader should be able to look at success and failure with the same eyes, and understand that both are needed for a team to succeed.

8.   Always be ready to Take Tough Decisions

Difficult decisions are constantly knowing at the door, therefore, as a leader you must always be ready to make the right decision. A great team lead by an even greater leader will always act with a purpose in mind. A leader must be able to stand alone and support his team whenever it is needed while confidently making the right decisions.

9.    The Importance of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

It might be difficult to understand but EQ is even more important than IQ. If your emotional abilities aren’t trained and managed, you will never be able to control your emotions or manage your stress. This leads to numerous health problems and can affect even your ability to work. Your team must learn what empathy is and put it into practice. Without empathy, there are no meaningful relationships and without relationships, there can’t be an effective team. Your EQ is nurtured through failing, don’t forget this!

10. Everything is Hard Before it’s Easy

Persistence is what transforms a mediocre team into a winning team. Make sure to encourage your team to work hard until they reach their goal (team goal). Teach them that they will never know their true limits until they pushed themselves to the edge. Pushing your team to its limits will help them understand that in order to evolve you must get out your shell and fight! The so-called limits are only a construct of your mind.

11. Help Your Team Grow Every Single day

Your team should never be stagnant. Offer your team members plenty of learning opportunities for them to grow and expand. For example, you may organize weekly conferences on different topics, or pay them a ticket to a renowned course.

12. Encourage Your Team to Be Fearless

As a great leader that you are you must encourage your team to always be fearless and brave. Teach them never to back down. Teach them that there is no hard task, only a weak psyche. Let them know that they are capable of amazing things, and the only way of living up to their full potential is to always go forward and take chances. A great leader will always lead through love and acceptance. Each team member must be his own leader for the team to grow and develop.

13. Earn Their Respect

One of the most important aspects of a team is respect. As a leader you must earn the respect of your fellow team members, while giving them all the reasons they need to respect you. Without mutual respect, there is no way of working and growing together as a team. Explain to your team that winning and failing are almost the same; the difference is that you learn every time you fail while wining is just a break from learning.

14. Admit That You Are Not Always Right

A great leader doesn’t consider himself a god, nor is he arrogant. He understands that he is human and mistakes can occur any time. Therefore, be transparent, let your team know your true self and remained them that you make mistakes too. Your team must understand that you don’t expect them to believe that you have all the answers. Transparency and sincerity are great qualities that every leader should poses.

15. Teach Your Team That it’s Ok to Lose

A great leader will always welcome failure and learn from it. Make sure to teach your team this important lesson. Failing is part of life and part of nature as well. In order to evolve you must fail. The only way to learn is through failing getting up and failing again.

16. Create Personal Relationships

A great leader will develop personal a personal relationship with each of his team members. This does not mean that you must develop a close friendship with all the members of the team. It means that you must recognize in them a fully developed human being capable of greatness.

Make sure to spend time to know everyone, show them that you truly care about them and let them know that you are always here in case they have problems at home or at work. Show them that you have only their best interests in mind and that you will never betray their trust. This is how you build a winning team.

Conclusion

As you can see a good leader will always work hard to help his team attain success. A true leader believes in his team even when they fail.  A true leader understands that failure is nothing more than a lesson that must be learned. A true leader will always work his ass of for the benefit off the team.

Julia Turner is a freelance writer with more than 5 years of professional experience. She is social media specialist whose modern and creative approach to writing produces excellent articles on finance, leadership, lifestyle and other general lifestyle topics.