People In Aid improves organisational effectiveness within the humanitarian and development sector worldwide by advocating, supporting and recognising good practice in the management of people.
We help organisations whose goal is the relief of poverty and suffering to enhance the impact they make through better management and support of staff and volunteers. We do this by reaching out to fieldworkers and other humanitarian and development workers worldwide and offering support, events, networking opportunities and 100s of resources. Our resources range from comprehensive manuals on topics like the debriefing of aid workers and managing people from a distance to an online ‘bank’ of organisational policies from organisations around the world.
Recently we joined up with various international leadership and HR specialists including the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), the FutureWork Forum, Oxford HR and many more to offer a series of publications called ‘How To Guides’. The series, available to download free from the People In Aid website gives concise (1-2 pages) guidance on topics ranging from coaching, recruitment, conflict with colleagues and more. There are over 30 Guides to explore in the series.
How To Build a Successful Team
Teams are not successful by chance. Indeed, most of the problems that teams encounter are both predictable and preventable. In its research into teams, CCL has worked out that what a leader does, or fails to do, when building up a team has a huge impact on the team’s eventual success. Simply put, you can head off most of the problems that teams face by working hard on who is in the team, the purpose of the team and having a good, realistic, idea of the problems your team is going to face.
The one-page ‘How To Build a Successful Team’ Guide builds upon 5 critical keys to success when building a successful team:
- Setting clear directions
- Building organisational support
- Creating a team structure
- Identifying key relationships
- Monitoring external factors
Download the Guide at this link.
