How to Manage Your Team Better as it Grows and Expands

As your business grows, it’s natural that your team of people will have to grow and expand as well. But making sure that your team is working together and pulling together in the right direction is no less important just because you have more people working for you.

In fact, keeping people communicative and collaborative only becomes more important as your team gets bigger. We’re going to talk today about how your approach to management will need to change and improve as you add more people to the team and as the business grows. So read on now and find out more.

Establish Clear Processes

 

First of all, you should go out of your way to establish clear processes that allow your business to hire new people and for them to slot into place quickly. When there are established routines and processes that everyone follows as part of their job, those processes can be taught and passed on to new hires very quickly. It’s a way of scaling your business and making sure that people hit the ground running. It’s definitely something to think about.

Create an Onboarding Process

Another way of making sure that people hit the ground running when they start working for your business is to have an onboarding process that they go through. This is a process that introduces them to all of the things that the business needs to do and get right. Onboarding people doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated, but it’s a good idea to remember that someone new won’t be aware of all the things that you’re familiar with from day-to-day experience. Onboarding gets them up to speed.

 

Keep Hold of the Culture

 

The company culture is something that’s really important to most organizations, and it’s also something that can get a little lost when new people are brought into the mix. It’s often diluted, unintentionally, through the growth of the business and that’s not what you want. So try to keep the company culture at the forefront of everything you do, and do what you can to ensure the people you hire are capable of fitting in with that company culture and the general ethos that you find so important.

Take the Time to Understand Each Person’s Strengths and Weaknesses

When you have a team of people, no matter how big or small, it’s important to remember that each person on that team is simply an individual. Each of them has things that they’re very good at and things that they’re not so good at. That’s completely normal. If you want to get the most from each person when they’re working for your company, you need to get to know those strengths and weaknesses. That way, you can delegate tasks to people more effectively going forward too.

Keep the Lines of Communication Open

Communication is an important factor in most workplaces. You want to make sure that everyone is able to voice their concerns and ask questions. There’s nothing wrong with that when it’s done in the right way. The people who are managing the company should be accountable to the people who are working for them. And the sharing of ideas should happen across the business. Just because someone isn’t in a high position within the company, that doesn’t make their ideas or feedback any less worthy. And you should avoid having those lines of communication shut down as the team expands.

Stay on Top of Scheduling

Scheduling is an important process when you have a lot of employees. You want to make sure that you’ve always got the team present that’s going to be able to get the work done. At the same time, you don’t want to waste resources by having too many people working at the same time in the schedule. Things like time card calculators and various software solutions can help you pan out your approach to scheduling a lot better if that’s something that you’ve been struggling with.

Embrace Change

 

It can be a little scary when your business starts to grow and new employees are bought onboard. But rather than thinking about how things used to be, embrace the chance to grow and embrace the process of change. No matter how scary it is, it’s hugely positive and will help the business reach its full potential. If you try to keep the business small, it might not be able to meet the demand that exists out there and then can be problematic in lots of ways.

Be Clear About Accountabilities

Everyone needs to know their role and position within your business. They need to know what’s expected of them and what they’re accountable for. If there’s ever any kind of lack of clarity in that department it can be very damaging. The sooner you deliver real clarity in that area, the more focused people will be and confusion will never become a problem in your workplace. Clear accountability will also mean that everyone knows who they’re reporting to and who’s responsible for which tasks.

Encourage Health and Wellness

One way to foster a positive culture in your company is to acknowledge the humanity of your employees. Make sure that you make provisions for taking care of their mental and physical health. There should be an open-door policy not just about business issues but also about personal issues too. Healthy employees are productive employees, and you should consider getting personalized employee care to help your employees with mental health and other wellness issues.

 

Learn from The Growing Pains

 

As your business grows and you add new people to your team, there are going to be challenges and plenty of growing pains. That’s just the way it is and it can’t really be avoided. Rather than worrying about that too much, you should try to take each challenge and each problem you face and learn from what happened. When you learn from your mistakes and take a lesson from them, you can make sure that the same issues don’t arise again later on. And growing pains are to be expected, so don’t fret over them too much.

 

As you can see, there are different challenges to confront when it comes to managing a bigger team of people. As your team grows, you’ll have to take different approaches and work harder to keep the team working together as a cohesive unit. So be sure to make the most of each of the ideas we’ve discussed here today.