Rus Slater - Team Management

As you can see, ‘people’ in the last two questions could mean the citizens of your country, your children and grandchildren, your shareholders or customers. It will depend on the type of job you and your team do; commercial, public sector and medical teams will doubtless have different approaches, leading to different team visions.

You can undertake this exercise in isolation or you can get your team involved. Personally I’d recommend the latter; this way the team members contribute to a vision that they can genuinely believe in and support; otherwise it is your vision and not necessarily theirs.

Once everyone shares the vision then the values of the team, acceptable behaviours, appropriate goals and an atmosphere of mutual support follow.

A shared vision means you are all facing the same way on the road to your goal.

Ground rules should be set early to make it clear what behaviour is acceptable among members of the team, including you as the team leader. Depending on the circumstances, ground rules can also relate to other internal departments, customers, competitors, shareholders and so on.

It is better for your team to create the ground rules themselves rather than you imposing the rules upon them. This may seem counterintuitive – you are, after all, supposed to be the leader – but you can lead the team to produce their own rules. Here’s how to do it.

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