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Transform Your Team: Proven Strategies to Become a Better Startup Manager
- The modern workplace is constantly in flux with the employment landscape shifting from employer-favored to employee-favored and back again. Startup managers' role has evolved from simply overseeing tasks and delegating work to inspiring teams to work together toward shared goals. Here, we explore some actionable strategies startup managers can apply to transform their team dynamics and reach maximum productivity and employee satisfaction.
- Approaching leadership with today's multigenerational teams requires startup managers to have a strong capacity for empathy and open communication. Empathetic leaders can recognize individual strengths and weaknesses within team members and foster an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing concerns and fielding constructive feedback. Startup managers can establish trust among their employees by leading with empathy and understanding.
- Managers must learn to set clear goals for their team and reasonable expectations by adhering to the SMART rule — “Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.” Following these specifications allows managers to better guide the team towards reaching their goals. When startup managers know their team members well and lead with empathy, they can better ensure their team members understand expectations and can handle them well.
- Today’s workers seek meaningful engagement from their managers and teams that feel valued, respected and listened to are more likely to be productive and remain loyal to the organization. Managers should recognize and reward achievements through a system that offers tangible acknowledgment when a team member performs well. Managers should also offer professional development and learning opportunities.
- Effective managers should be able to tailor their management styles to different team members and situations that may arise. By keeping communication open and empathy attuned to their team members, shifting gears and remaining flexible should come naturally to leaders of startups. When team members are in a startup environment that doesn’t shut down teamwork or collaborative efforts, creative problem-solving becomes streamlined. Good managers can transform startup teams into productive, happy employees who are excited about their work and its contributions to the organization.
- Empathy, clear goals and expectations, motivation and engagement, and flexible leadership are some of the proven strategies startup managers can implement to transform their team dynamics and reach maximum productivity and employee satisfaction. By following these strategies, managers can create a more collaborative, motivated and high-performing team environment in their startups.
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