Building a team for an organizational start-up

To build a team for a start-up, one should consider hiring people with expertise, doers, and employees with experience in specific tasks. People with a common objective are bound to work to achieve a common goal & it is easier to manage the team.

When identifying board team members, one should consider the team expertise’s objectives to execute the task and the employees’ specialization levels.

Effective team management starts with transparent communication channels and quick feedback to provide the team with the necessary support.

Achieving a happy and productive team one should.

Be Transparent

Being transparent makes the team members more accountable and creative: it gives them a sense of mutual respect between the team members and the team leader.

Communicate

Proper communication from team leaders creates confidence with the team members making it easier for them to air out their concerns and communicate.

Provide feedback

Prompt feedback allows team members to develop personally and professionally. Active feedback enables employees to deal with the task quickly, following the guidelines without omitting any information.

Encourage collaboration- team members are happier when they can interact with one another because they can share ideas among themselves, making it easier to come up with better solutions to tackle the task.

Good team leader should influence others, communicate effectively, motivate other team members, and be flexible with change.

Emmanuel Addo

Founder

Emmanuel Addo is the founder of the Young Global Leaders Network, an international non-governmental organization registered in six (6) countries namely, Ghana, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan and has a membership strength of over 15,000 young black professionals, students, graduates, and aspiring leaders.

The organization also operates in 25 other African countries. Emmanuel also doubles as the chief convener and founder of the Young African Leaders Summit, one of the largest continental youth summits in Africa.

Currently works at Kingston University as a Business Engagement Team Member in their Partnerships and Engagement Department.

He characterizes energy, integrity, result-oriented, and ground-breaking service in each detail of strategic management, change management, stakeholder management, and leadership acquaintances.
Emmanuel owns a core background in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Ghana.

Leveraging his experience as a youth activist and a dynamic young man, Emmanuel founded the Young Global Leaders Network, a youth organization that comprises young diplomats, young politicians, and aspiring politicians, business/entrepreneurial business leaders with the aim of championing a mutual agenda for the African youth and promoting youth participation in governance as well as promoting entrepreneurial culture.
Emmanuel nurtures an environment of teamwork and has expertise in data collection and analysis as well as both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Emmanuel worked as an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Advanced Management where he delivered a wide range of business management courses that involved principles of marketing, leadership, operation management, and research methods. Emmanuel has always maintained high teaching and learning standards to ensure that his students’ stand out in academic achievements and successful progression. As a stout believer and passionate key player in volunteering; Emmanuel creates quality time to giving back gladly to his community what he has learned and to educate individuals with free consultancy on career development. He is a leader anyone would love to look up to and with great integrity, commitment, and passion to make the world a better place.
Emmanuel worked as Qualifications Manager at the Open University in the UK.

Emmanuel is also the founder of Kickstart Innovation Hub Ltd, the entrepreneurial hub of Young Global Leaders Network.