{"id":15302,"date":"2022-05-17T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/managementberatung-coaching.de\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:09:25","slug":"team-development-mid-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/managementberatung-coaching.de\/en\/teamentwicklung-mittelstand\/","title":{"rendered":"Team development in small and medium-sized companies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Team development in SMEs is of central importance for entrepreneurial success<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A healthy and trusting team culture is of crucial economic importance for all companies, but especially for SMEs. It is characterised by 5 central factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this culture is lacking, demotivation, a drop in performance, internal dismissal, high absenteeism and ultimately external dismissal are almost inevitable consequences. As a result, quality suffers and customer relationships may be damaged. Increased absenteeism leads to higher personnel costs, and dismissals result in costs for recruitment, new hires and training. And poor reviews of the company in social media or on the kununu platform also damage the employer brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we provide 5 concrete ideas on how you can positively change the team culture of your company. Make team culture and team development a top priority and create emotional security, a feeling of equality and space for growth and development so that the self-confidence and passion of every team member can grow.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What are the characteristics of a healthy team culture?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A healthy team culture is characterised by five key factors: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span>Heart and soul of the team members<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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<\/path><\/g><\/svg><\/span>Sufficient Room for growth and development of each<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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<\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>Sense of equivalence in the team<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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<\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/path><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/span>Self-confidence of the team members<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span>Emotional security<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

How can these characteristics be recognised?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gut feeling is often a good indicator of the quality of team culture. The five factors become perceptible in the following behaviour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspects of a healthy team culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heart and soul<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It is generally quite easy to tell whether team members are passionate about their work. In concrete terms, this means that they take on 100% responsibility for the common cause and defined goals. Sentences like \"That's not my responsibility\" or \"That's not my job\" are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth and development<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most people want to develop themselves further. Further development can take place on different levels: professional, personal, interpersonal ...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team must offer room for growth and development so that people feel permanently comfortable in it. If people feel that the cooperation with their environment is not or not very enriching, they will not put their heart and soul into this cooperation. The inner retreat begins and initiates the outer retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can be seen, for example, in the fact that team members do a 9-to-5 job, who diligence suffers, additional tasks are done with reluctance and may also not be completed on time, interest in joint team activities dwindles, nothing is said in meetings or everything said is contradicted. It may be that defined processes or standards are not adhered to, and instead one's own path or workaround is developed and pursued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whether we as human beings feel equal is very much linked to our family background and early childhood socialisation. The feeling of being worth nothing or less than others can be recognised by various aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n