Chapter 10. The 10 Steps of Team Building

You have now moved into your new role as the manager/leader/builder of a team or are about to. You are either in the starting phase or the stalling one. What do you do now? How do you get started on building your team? Here’s the answer in 10 easy steps. That is, the steps are very easy to understand, but a bit more difficult to implement.

You must do each step. Never skip a step. And I am making one assumption with these 10 steps: that you are beginning from scratch and building a new team. But the reality could be that you are inheriting an existing team. Even if the latter is true, you should follow or review many of the same steps.

When building your team, you should use the same 10 steps whether you ...

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