Train Your Employees As A Team

Train your employees as a team. Each person may have been hired for a specific job that calls for specified skills. Great. But don't overlook the need for all your people to work as a unit. Skills, willpower, and teamwork combined are greater than the sum of each person.

Make or cause to be made a set of basic procedures for each job. See the post on desktop procedures for examples.

Switch out people. If they cannot accomplish the most basic functions then a bit of training is in order. I'm not advocating making each person replaceable by anyone else. Just be sure that the simple bases are covered.

Make rewards greater for results. Increase the rewards for team based events that get good results. Show your people that they could not have done it alone.

Set the example by obviously collaborating in win-win situations with other people at your level.

Teamwork means that your people can speak with your voice in your absence. That means that you can take the occasional vacation or grant days off.

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