Being part of a positive and team-oriented culture will bring success to your team.  There are five habits that any leader should utilize to achieve success in your team.

First, always ask “What will I do today to add value to the team?”  Whether it is a conceptual concept like building trust within the team or the physical reduction of costs to relieve team stress, adding value to your team ensures that you are constantly improving as a unit.

Next, reflect on your actions.  Take the time to remember what needs to be accomplished and to ensure that every step is being taken to complete the task.  If your team does not have the resources in order to complete the task, you need to find the third party resources that can accomplish your end goal.

Third, be organized.  Often, offices don’t understand where their inefficiencies are coming from because they are not organized. Make sure you are checking in on your records to understand how you keep track of your expenses and costs.

Practice personal and professional development.  This will keep you and your team moving forward.  Always assume you do not know enough and there is always an expert, internal or external, that can improve your team.

Finally, work outside of your comfort zone.  As you continue to work outside of your comfort zone, your boundaries will continue to broaden.  This will keep you and your team striving forward.  Explore new ways to save, work, and communicate in order to drive your business forward. These habits will encourage your team to positively impact every area of your business.

Allot of companies need to cut costs in these troublesome times. Although we are officially “out of the recession,” Real GDP has not bounced back making families hold tight to their wallets and making businesses do the same. Here are some crazy ways businesses are trying to tighten their belts:

1. Turn off the air conditioning: A work environment is supposed to be comfortable so employees can work more efficiently , but some companies are cranking up the heat! Office’s thermostats used to be set cool (about 70 – 72 degrees) now trends have shown the thermostat set higher and higher with a lock on the box.

2. Remove the water coolers: Yes, this minor office luxury has been removed from many offices for two reasons. First, it provides an area for more social aspects of business (gossip) which breeds employee inefficiency. Second, the cost of reordering the coolers themselves have some companies telling employees to use a water fountain.

3. Up the Vending machine prices: Remember a time when grabbing a snack at your office was cheaper than anywhere else? Not anymore, that snickers that used to be a dollar now may cost you twice that price! This may help your waist size, but it definitely won’t be helping your wallet.

4. Pay to Park: The saying is true that nothing in life comes free, but having to pay to get to your job is ridiculous! As our little world gets more and more industrialized and homes keep popping up faster and faster, we are seeing the space for parking getting smaller and smaller. Companies are taking advantage of this by making employees pay for decals so they can park their cars on company lots! I know they say that you have to spend money to make money but the “Pay to Park” idea may be a bit over the top.

These companies may just not be aware of some much better ways to reduce spend without sacrificing the happiness of their employees!

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