BETTER STILL TOOLKIT—TEAM LEADER
BETTER STILL TEAMWORK TOOLKIT®
Team Leader
Improve how to lead a team, at any distance.
Boost the productivity and engagement of your team of talented professionals.
Serving as team leader is a big responsibility—made tougher when you’re new to the job or the team, or when you’re working at a distance. Better Still has analyzed crucial components of team-leader success, and created this Teamwork Toolkit for people in this vital role.
Use the digital toolkit to coordinate work better, ensure quality outcomes, and connect effectively with your team members—with the easy-to-use, on-demand support of 25 digital Better Still Tools, and nine specially created tool plans.
The Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Team Leader works equally well to support your leadership of intact teams, project teams, colocated teams, and remote teams. And it helps you to build vital team-leader skills.
Easy-to-use Better Still Tools to strengthen your team leadership every day
Your Team Leader toolkit gives you unlimited access to 25 Better Still Tools to use on your own or with team members. The tools provide simple steps to make your team leadership better now—often within minutes—and better still, for the long term. Use the tools to help you lead a team—when you’re planning and organizing meetings or team tasks; when you’re communicating with team members; when you’re coordinating and managing action; when you seek to learn and grow as a team.
25 tools in the Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Team Leader
- How to prepare yourself to work effectively with others
- How to understand another person better
- How to communicate with people who aren’t like you
- How to metacommunicate
- How to advocate to create better ideas
- How to listen well
- How to ask questions to deepen understanding
- How to foster creative thinking in a team
- How to figure out what you’re deciding
- How to use relevant facts to tackle your problem
- How to generate great options
- How to weigh benefits and risks when you make a decision
- How to choose the best decision-making process
- How to create an effective standard
- How to create a system of standards to sustain quality work
- How to reveal and reconcile competing priorities
- How to assign tasks that energize performers and deliver results
- How to make a request
- How to respond to someone’s offer to do something
- How to determine whether you’re executing or experimenting
- How to drive performance effectively and respectfully
- How to strengthen actions through real-time learning
- How to complain when someone breaks a promise
- How to give feedback to someone
- How to receive feedback
Every Better Still Tool includes:
- A short video introduction
- Easy-to-follow scripts or steps—many with examples
- Tips
- A quick quiz to lock in new habits
- Information about skill sets each tool supports
What’s in a Better Still Tool?
Powerful tool plans to enhance key elements of team leadership
Better Still Tools are potent on their own—and become even more so when they’re paired with other tools. Our interactive, digital tool plans combine and sequence Better Still Tools to help you elevate your team leadership in nine crucial aspects of your work:
- Activate a new team effectively
- Hold an energized, idea-filled meeting
- Make a smart decision
- Elevate work quality with excellent standards
- Build a platform for creative thinking
- Become smarter about your priorities
- Focus performance and learn from it
- Communicate to improve coordination and action
- Give and receive feedback effectively
Here’s a sample of what’s in a tool plan:
Simple, clear organizing structure to guide you
Easy-to-follow, smart, step-by-step instruction
Every tool you’ll need, available in one click
Skill sets and catalysts to maximize the toolkit’s value to you and your team
Your Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Team Leader includes even more
Beyond the Better Still Tools and tool plans, you have access to:
Custom consultation to prepare conditions for toolkit success
An easy-to-follow orientation and onboarding experience
Guidance for team leaders to be your best in this vital role
At-a-glance summaries of the 25 tools
A quick-reference guide to match a Better Still Tool to specific team-leader needs
Please contact us to learn how to bring the Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Team Leader into your organization.
Team leaders: Support your team members by providing them subscriptions to the Better Still Teamwork Toolkit—Team Contributor!
Does your team need additional support to excel?
Learn about the Better Still Team Optimization Solution.