Change Management | Teik Oh

Improve Team Collaboration

Jul 19 2016

In order for teams to work effectively and productively, they need to collaborate effectively.

Now, you might think that first sentence is all about corporates? Well guess what, teams are there in any business. They might be teams of employees, or teams of contractors and virtual assistants for all you solopreneurs out there. They might even be a team of partners. All of these have to find ways to collaborate effectively in order to all head in the same direction – forwards!

One of the ways to improve team collaboration is to set up some “rules” about how the team “plays” – rules about how work is done together, how decisions are made, even how disputes are resolved. These “rules of conduct” help to clarify everyone’s expectations about how things are done in the team.

In this week’s video, I explore team rules of conduct, what they are, what they should include, and how to set them up.

If you want to know more about team rules of conduct, here’s a great article on what to include, and here is an article on how to facilitate the establishment of one in a workshop.

This is where the fun starts – in the sharing – please go to the blog and leave a comment under this video telling all of us what your team rules of conduct are.

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Systematise Your Business

Jun 14 2016

As busy entrepreneurs, what we all want in our businesses (and in our lives!) is efficiency, right?

You want to be able to do your usual processes quickly and efficiently, and because you do them day in and day out memorising every step, you probably do. But what happens if someone has to take over for you – perhaps when you have a day off? Or what happens when you expand and have to start hiring staff, or take on VA’s and contractors?

I’ll tell you what happens – it all slows down! Disturbingly this means you can never leave the business, not even for a holiday!

Other people don’t live inside your memory so they take longer to work out what to do, perhaps even do things in the wrong order and have to come back and do it again. Okay, so you train them – you take them through the steps, and yet….they get it wrong! They can’t remember everything they are told – you wouldn’t either if your weren’t living it day in and day out!

This week’s discussion is about how to systematise your business – treat it as if you were a one-branch franchise and organise procedures and process manuals!

Your standard processes are just that – standard – so why not write them down, video yourself doing them, and make these records the basis of how you train your staff?

I’d love to hear from you – please go to the blog by clicking here and leave a comment – how have you scaled your business by proceduralising it?

Now, standard processes and procedures creating efficiency is only one way of running a great business:-

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Get Your Team Motivated!

Apr 12 2016

Running a business as an entrepreneur – even if you’re a “sole-preneur” – involves working with others at some stage.

You either have to work with employees, or with contractors, VA’s, or others helping you to deliver your product or service and to serve your customer. You need to have them committed to your purpose and principles in order for you to provide the kind of quality and service that you want to provide to your customer. Believe me, if their heart isn’t in it, your customer will “feel” the lack of commitment. It will show in your turnaround times, in the design of your product or service, and in the overall culture in the workplace.

So, if your team seems to lack motivation, what can you do?

Well it starts with you, as the leader. You need to be absolutely clear about your business vision and purpose – the “why” of your being in business.

Then, I believe you can use three actions to motivate your team:-

Align
Build Trust
Be consistent and deliberate.

Watch this video about how to put these actions into place.

Many studies have shown an engaged team out-produces an unengaged team. You need to bring people with you on your exciting journey and all it takes is a few simple, but deliberate and consistent steps.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments on the blog – get over to teikoh.com and post your comments. What have you done to motivate your team? What results have you seen?

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Creating a Resilient Climate in your Business

Dec 29 2015

Two weeks ago, in the first part of this two-part series of articles on creating a resilient business, I wrote about the characteristics of a resilient organisation.

I identified that your business needs to display the three characteristics of:-

Facing down reality;
Having a strong purpose;
Empowering innovation;

and identified a fourth characteristic, which was good leadership.

In this week’s article, Part 2, I want to deal with how to create a resilient climate in your business. Read More

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How to Create a Resilient Business

Dec 15 2015

Whether you are about to start a new business or running an established one, whether you are looking to expand your business or consolidate or even deal with some contraction, whether your business is micro, small, medium or large, whether you hire 100 people or none, at some stage you will want to ensure that your business is resilient.

Resilient from what?

You know, it almost doesn’t matter.

You might want to create a resilience in your business that will shelter you from national or international economic woes; you might want your business to be resilient against loss of key personnel; you might simply want your business to carry on undiminished forever.

Many entrepreneurs start a business by investing themselves, along with their money, into the business because their business is an extension of themselves – and do you not want to be resilient yourself? More than skills, experience or training, a person’s level of resilience will determine if they fail or succeed. Intuitively you know this is true whether you are playing a sport or building a business empire.

In this two part series of articles I will deal with how to create a resilient business. This first part is on identifying the characteristics of a resilient organisation. Part two will be about creating a cultural climate for organisational resilience.

So before we start to create the climate in which your business can become resilient, let’s first identify the characteristics of a resilient organisation. Read More

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Improve Team Collaboration

Systematise Your Business

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Get Your Team Motivated!

Or why not get a free Business Health Checklist? Click here and I will send you the link to download an Entrepreneur’s Business Health Checklist that will assess the 6 Key Result Areas of your business.

Creating a Resilient Climate in your Business

How to Create a Resilient Business