Your community management team not only makes things easier for you, it also makes living within your community more pleasant for your residents, but the latter fact only rings true if your team is able to work as a team. Encouraging the team to work as a team is a large part of your job as the team’s leader, and putting forth the effort to build the team’s abilities can lead to a happier community with better resident satisfaction and retention. A satisfied group of residents are a group of residents who will help you in making the community all it can be, and this goal should begin with creating a team with a strong foundation of true blue teamwork!

Encouraging your team to work as a team can benefit from team building exercises, and bringing the team together for social occasions or outings where all can get to know one another in a relaxed and open environment. A team that is able to get along well is a team that will work well together, and the better your team works together will directly correlate to how happy your residents are with living within your space.

Another way to encourage great teamwork is to build schedules that allow equal work time and down time, as this will allow your team members to have ample relaxation time to recharge and work at their best. For your maintenance team, for instance, allowing different members of your maintenance team to have certain weekend days off in a cycle, or finding ways to accommodate different time schedules can help immensely in encouraging everyone to work as one team unit.

When your management, maintenance, and other team members can all work as one, your workload will grow easier as your residents grow happier with their experience living within your residence. At Occupancy Solutions, we know how important it is to work as a team and what great teamwork can mean to the overall quality of the community you provide. For more ideas on team building exercises, and how to better encourage great teamwork, simply contact us at OccupancySolultions.com today.