The Importance of Connecting With Your Team

It is extremely important for a leader to connect and bond with their team. fizkes/Shutterstock

Great leaders know the importance of connecting and bonding with their team. They act with intent to build healthy relationships to care for and strengthen each member. This helps create an atmosphere filled with peace and mutual trust, where every member is loved, built up, and respected. Leaders must make sure every team member feels comfortable openly expressing their ideas and concerns without fear of reprisal.

All this creates an enjoyable place to work where team members are ready to handle challenges under pressure together without panicking, drama, confusion, or chaos. Bonding with your team will help each member understand one another at a more personal level, helping to fuel engagement, improve teamwork, and generate new ideas.

Connecting with your team is as simple as being present with them, and giving them the opportunity to know and recognize each other’s strengths and weakness with the purpose of support, maturity, and growth.

Know Your Team Members by Spending Time With Them

Healthy relationships at work are maintained the same way they are among family members at home, such as eating meals together and sharing personal stories.

Leaders use this friendship time not to talk about work responsibilities, but to show appreciation, encouragement, and to let their team members be themselves by allowing them to express their life’s interest to form a better connection.

These are stress free moments of laughter where leaders lay down their busy in-demand schedule for a more valuable time of connection. These leaders know how to show real and strong leadership by having a servant’s heart and thereby putting their team members above themselves, even in unexpected situations.

Their good and humble actions help their team to see themselves not just as workers, but as friends and part of a strong team. Going the extra mile in team care will help everyone not only to feel cared for, but to care for their leader, their team, and the vision of the organization, business, or ministry.

Spending time with your team is mission critical. Leaders know how to take advantage of every opportunity to connect with their team members. Find ways to help when they are doing simple tasks like stapling, printing, or carrying boxes. Jumping in to assist gives you the opportunity not just to help, but to have a simple conversation to show that you care. “How are you doing? How is your family doing? Is everyone at home doing good? ”

Give opportunities to your team to express what is in their hearts. Address their needs and concerns with compassion. Great leaders always put their team’s needs above their own.

Communicating With Your Actions Too

Great leaders communicate with their team directly. They give clear instructions, and are constantly communicating via emails, vision boards, and meetings. They ask questions that stimulate critical thinking and facilitate problem solving discussions. They reflect their love, passion, and commitment for the vision in everything they do or say. Together, with their team, they come up with a set of ideas that line up with the vision to accomplish the mission together.

Successful leaders are committed to their team’s achievements. They do what they say they will do. In other words, they act on what they say. They know the importance of a “good seed planting” principle. You reproduce the same fruit or vegetable from the seed that you planted. If you sowed apples seed, then apples you will have. In other words, whatever your team hears you say, or observes you do, they will also say and do those same things—for good or bad.

Keep in mind that your words’, body language, and actions’ combined impact and greatly influence the perception that your team has about you as their leader. The leader’s choice of words, the tone they use to speak, and motivations are extremely crucial for connecting with their team and building healthy relationships. Great leaders build up their team and avoid, at all costs, verbally tearing them down.

Confident leaders know how to create a safe and healthy atmosphere in the workplace. They train, correct, and inspire their teams to success. Any necessary correction should always come from a place of love and encouragement, not anger and frustration. Let your team see that your objective is to bring unity by connecting and building healthy relationships with each member, not selectively embracing some while leaving out others. That will only create a dysfunctional and divided team.

It is extremely important for a leader to connect and bond with their team, so that together in the spirit of harmony, love, and respect, they can celebrate not just the success of accomplishing the mission, but the strength, maturity, and growth of every individual in and the collective team as a whole.

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