3 Quick Communication & Training Tips to Improve your Team

As a team manager or business owner it can be difficult to find time to formally train your team. However, without effective communication and training it can be detrimental to the growth of your team or business. It doesn’t have to be as difficult as it seems. The 3 quick training tips below are a great way to get you started down the right path towards improving team communication and training your team.

Daily 15 minute team updates

Effective communication is essential in developing your team. A simple way to make sure you’re communicating adequately with your team is to schedule daily 15 minute meetings. You can use that time to provide company updates, short training sessions, collect team feedback, etc… All it takes is setting up a daily reminder on your team’s calendar. If your hesitation is providing content for the meeting, you can always delegate that out to your team.

Informative One page documents

Content should be short and sweet… A great way to cover one topic is to write a short one page document.  It should provide enough detail to learn about the topic but not too much or it will lead to boredom. The reader should hopefully gain up to 3 main ideas from the one page document. (Similar to a blog) This is another opportunity for you to delegate this out to your team. Overtime, you will have put together a thorough amount of information that you can utilize for new hire training.

Pop quiz

Pop Quiz! There are not a lot of people that like pop quizzes however, it is an easy way to keep your team on their toes and keep tabs on their knowledge base.  Whether you send out a quiz with detailed questions or a story problem, there are numerous ways to keep your team stimulated. This is a great way to create a continuous learning environment in your team.

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