How to Lead the Happiest Teams with 5 Simple yet Powerful Rules

Two years ago I wrote an article named “<a href="https://vasilis-danias.medium.com/how-to-lead-happier-teams-with-6-simple-rules-7055d405c0ee" rel="noopener">How to Lead Happier Teams with 6 Simple Rules</a>”. Retrospection and learning from past experiences are really important to me so I wanted to look back over these two years and revisit my article and see what I have learned since and if there is anything to add or amend. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*HTSAdak3AYcEk2gnoaN0qw.png" style="height:411px; width:700px" /> What has changed since? Our team grew from 35 to around 50 by early 2020 and then shrank down to around 40 with a single termination and mainly due to controlled attrition as our industry has turned from a growth-at-all-costs mode to a sharp turn towards the path to profitability while at the same time being severally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this very challenging and turbulent business environment, using these rules, our team has been enjoying the highest eNPS (<a href="https://www.questionpro.com/blog/employee-net-promoter-score-enps/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Employee Net Promoter Score</a>) in the company (and 22 points higher than the benchmark of all industries) while our business performance has been exceptional given the COVID-19 context. Looking back at these rules, I realise that the most important thing (transparency) did not have its own rule so I wanted to correct this. At the same time, I combined some rules and lowered their number to 5 because Less is More. <a href="https://vasilis-danias.medium.com/how-to-lead-the-happiest-teams-with-5-simple-yet-powerful-rules-766a13134098">Learn More</a>