Building Teamspirit

To build a stable team for your website, you need to have different management qualities, especially for non-profit websites. This blog is written out of a non-profit perspective, within some time you will see a blog post also about the difference between profit and non-profit.

Develop Team identity.

To create a strong Team identity you should first accept all opinions and feelings of team members, this sounds logic but in most cases that's where the problems occur. Of course you want to set down a Team that is strong individually and as a group. For this reason you don't have to come up with rules such as everybody needs a website e-mail, or denominations for their Tasks.
Their responsibilities are indispensable for the growth of the website.

Each team member has unique ideas for the website, these ideas are indispensable for the growth of the website. Your team members are determined, and let them know that you appreciate. Because this is one of the biggest motivational factors.

Share responsibilities.

Share the work so that everyone can exploit his or her knowledge to the maximum. Even small personal things such as looking something up with a search machine are important. Now your team members knows that they can reach each other as long they do it together.

Talk without words

You have a team, without words even the most difficult tasks can be done. Just listening to music, watching a movie or playing a game improves the understanding of the individuals within the team.

The faith in goals of today and tomorrow.

When the team understands the strategic planning and the goals of the website. The team will be more devoted to the goals of today, and believe in a good ending of tomorrow's goals. The team members will appreciate their place within the team and their responsibilities.

Recognise work

People love to get feedback about their work from their surroundings such as friends, team members, and professionals and especially from the team leader. For this reason you must frequently recognise work of your team members.

Individual ideas

No idea is wrong, nothing is bad. Frequently your team members will offer you help with difficult tasks you can't solve by yourself. Accept this and involve them into the task without concerning what their knowledge or skills are in that area. This may cost much time but supplies the link, which you would like to have with your team.

Talk alternatively

It's much better to know your team members good then completing a task. Talk about music, community issues, real-live, technique etc. Of course jokes and funny quotes helps the inspiration, to do one task great, instead of 10 task mediocore.