Share Your Team Successes

If your team is known as a high performance team, the chances you will suffer employee or budget cuts decreases. You often receive the best projects. People come to rely upon you and have faith in your abilities. Upper management notices your performance and you become a case study for other parts of the company. Being known as a high performance team should be the goal of every manager, but how do you build that reputation?

Show People Your Good Work

You can only build a solid reputation for your team by showing off your good work. Managers in enterprises are often very busy and don’t notice good work – they are busy with their own tasks, projects, and reports. You have to show off your good work without coming off as just being self promotional. You can accomplish this a number of ways.

1. Discuss Your Team Successes

By focusing attention on what your team is accomplishing, you will show off the good work of your employees (and yourself) without seeming too self promotional. A team oriented approach also builds your image as a team player and a manager that works well with others. Start by praising members of your team and the hard work they did on a particular project or an effort that was successful at your firm.

2. Praise Others to Bring Attention to Your Team

When you work with other teams in some effort, praise others involvement and you will often receive praise back. Gaining a reputation as an encourager will demonstrate that you understand how to work well in a team or matrix work environment.

3. Be Genuine and Honest with Your Feedback

An honest and candid manager is a strong asset for a company. When you are honest and candid with project failures, you will be known as a straight shooter and when you have a successful project people will listen. An honest and frank assessment of how things are going is desirable on any management team.

4. Show Your Team You Value Them

Promoting your teams’ accomplishments will demonstrate to your employees that you value them and you value team accomplishments. Encouraging this behavior will result in future successes and as you continue to promote your successes, you will find that people will recognize your team as one which gets things done.

Some managers are afraid that promoting successes is like patting oneself on the back, but instead, its making sure that those around you understand that your team is valuable and offers value to the company.