Is my TEAM doing good? How to make it GOOD?

The biggest concern in any industry is brain-drain or attrition rate . Why does this happen?

What starts with one employee spreads on to other team members and thus breaking the team flow and enthusiasm.

It is the duty of a leader to check where his/her team is heading. What more value-addition the team requires. Does the team require any specific training to learn more? What are the teams expectations? Is there any issue with the team or any other concern? Is the team satisfied?

Teams satisfaction also depend on various factors like:

1. Long stay in company

2. Due to long stay is a person taken for granted.

3. No growth[No proper 'experience:salary' ratio, No Promotions, No Onsite Project exposure]

4. Type of work given or is he/she overloaded?

So how to know whether your TEAM is doing good and everything is fine in the team?

Normally management only think on priority-basis about the employees who have resigned, because management needs to take immediate care of the baby who is currently crying. Rather a employee is only noticed when he/she is on notice period :) But why should we wait till that time. If the employee performs well and if he/she deserves growth then why shouldn't he/she be compensated for what he/she deserves. This could help in reducing lot of real brain-drain.

Following points can be taken into consideration:

1.Keep a regular check on each team-member whether he/she is performing well? If not then, why?

2.Address every issue of each and every team-member.

3.NEVER-NEVER-NEVER NEGLECT any team-member's issue. A small negligence can create a blunder in whole team and disrupt the integrity of the team, leading to inefficiency in team-output. REMEMBER Tata-Nano car when it was introduced, it not only ruled market and but people's heart too majoritily by mouth-to-mouth publicity ONLY, it saved lot of money that was required for advertisement. A good business strategy. Similarly negative thoughts spread doubly faster than positive thoughts.

4.If a team-member is not keeping well, instead of thinking that he is lying and spying on him/her again and again, believe in him, ask him to take rest. If he needs a break, give it. He will return with full-boost and confidence in you.

5.Always have one-to-one meeting with every team-member once atleast in 2-3 months, inquire about his growth and does he have any issue and does he have any suggestion. By doing so, the employee gets a sense of respect for himself and you too as he has been considered equally in the team and there is a value for his suggestion.

6.Employees are also human-being and not machines, so boost your team-members and applaud him whenever he/she has done something good, not only in mail but also by visiting his desk or in any stand-up meeting and convey your message personally.

7.Never over-power your team-members and accept if you have made a mistake than pushing it on to team-members. This adds lot of positive value both to the team-members and lead too, as next time they wont hide their mistake too, which could lead to disaster later on. A stitch in time saves nine.

By keeping a track of above points, one can surely say 'Yes my TEAM is doing GOOD.'