Organising your workforce into functional groups and teams is essential for fostering collaboration, clarifying roles, and achieving organisational goals. In Everday, you can easily create and manage teams to ensure alignment and effective teamwork across your organisation.
Why organize teams?
With team visualisation, you can create permanent organisational structures and temporary project teams. In this section, you'll be able to:
- See the match of each team member: Evaluate how well individuals meet their role's required skills and support those with the most opportunity for improvement.
- Encourage collaboration: Group skilled employees to mentor those who need support, streamlining workflows and improving results.
- Achieve goals faster: Assign the right people to the right teams, ensuring their talent is where it should be.
Example: For a product launch, you could create a cross-functional team of marketers, designers, and project managers, all working together on aligned goals.
How to set up teams in Everday
Follow these steps to set up and manage your teams effectively:
- Log in to Everday
- Access your dashboard and navigate to the Teams section.
- Create a new team
- Click Create Team and give your team a clear name and description (e.g., "Marketing Campaign Team").
- Define key skills
- Add a set of skills that are essential for the team’s success. For example:
- A marketing team might require skills like campaign management, content creation, and SEO.
- Add a set of skills that are essential for the team’s success. For example:
- Add team members
- Select team members from your profiles database.
- Assign a relevant skill set or role to each member to analyze their contributions and identify any gaps.
- Save and monitor progress
- Finalize the team setup and monitor performance over time.
- Use Everday’s insights to ensure that roles and responsibilities remain aligned with team goals.
Video Tutorial: Watch a short tutorial for a step-by-step guide to creating teams.
Best practices for managing groups and teams
- Conduct regular reviews: Assess team composition periodically to ensure roles and skills still align with objectives.
- Create dynamic groups: For specific projects, set up temporary teams with targeted skills to achieve quick and effective results.
- Balance skills effectively: Use the Skill Matrix to ensure teams have the right mix of strengths and no critical skill gaps.
What’s next?
Once your teams are set up:
- Track team progress: Use the Skill Matrix to monitor skill alignment and performance.
- Adapt to changing needs: Revisit roles and team structures as projects or goals evolve.
- Leverage Everday insights: Ensure collaboration stays smooth and efficient by regularly updating teams based on the platform’s data-driven recommendations.
By setting up and managing teams in Everday, you can ensure that your workforce is aligned, collaborative, and ready to achieve organisational goals.