What Makes a Successful Business Leader? – Step 2 – Defining Success

Management teams are always the ones who are accountable for the success of their teams i.e profit and loss in most cases. Effort co-ordination is effectively achieved by the profit models in place at the business. This can then be further broken down in to individual responsibilities which will continue to grow and increase. This will define the success of the overall team as long as the team hits their number overall the individual numbers do not matter as much it just means that one person has had to overcompensate for the other which can cause a small rift within the team if not worked on and improved and managed correctly.
So how do we define teamwork? We define it in two particular ways. These are as follows:-

1. Co-ordinating effectively. Communicate effectively to the team as a whole what their duties and responsibilities are. All team members are expected to respond in a co-operative manner in a way that the total level of profit operating is always enhanced and developing.
2. Business ethics. This responsibility lies with the entire team. However there does need to be a particular emphasis on the team leader to instruct. Team members don’t always need to like one another as at the end of the day everyone is there to do a job and conduct themselves in a professional manner so it is inevitable that there will be some disagreements but you must ensure they act in without personal biases that undermine the effectiveness of the team.
3. Individual performance. As the team are now bound by the two previous points, each team member is expected to be thoroughly focussed on his or her own responsibilities to such an extent that when they say something is going to happen or a particular result can be expected, then the team has every confidence in them that it will.