Setting up communication
According to Forbes, one of the key factors is correctly setting up the communication system within the team. Take your time and set up both internal communication within your team and external communication towards management or other departments in the company.
Understanding priorities
You should clearly understand what your priorities are. This concerns both your own priorities as well as the most important priorities and values of the company as a whole. Be sure to make these priorities known to individual team members too. Instead of micro-managing the individual employees, ensure they understand their roles and the role of the team in the wider context of the priorities of the whole company.
Delegation of work
Set up a system of effective delegation of work within the team. Newly appointed leaders often make the mistake of leaving too much work for themselves as they believe only they are able to do the job 100% and, moreover, have a clear idea about how the given tasks should be done. You must learn to trust your employees and delegate work so that the work of the whole team is effective and evenly distributed.
Definition of all the roles within the team
Clearly define the scope of your obligations to both yourself and people around you. Become acquainted in detail with your obligations and rights and clearly mark where your responsibility begins and ends. You must also define the obligations and roles of individual employees so as to prevent possible arguments about competency and make the workflow of your team smoother.
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