Effective Team Management
Here are some tips on effective team management
One Minute Praising
Help people reach their full potential – catch them doing something right:
- praise people immediately
- tell people what they did right be specific
- tell people how good you felt about what they did right, and how it helps the organization and the other people who work there
- stop for a moment of silence to let them ‘feel’ how good you feel
- encourage them to do more of the same
- shake hands or touch people in a way that makes it clear that you support their success
Effective Team Motivation
A good coach is simultaneously the chief cheerleader and chief critic – both demanding and supporting. The best coaches tend to be abrupt, demanding, and frequently SOBs.
Maintaining an environment of challenge preserves motivation. Find ways to use this powerful formula of 2 short statements:
Yeh, you’re good… But how good are you??
Both parts of this challenge are essential. It supports the persons ego and maintains an air of challenge to keep the next goal out in front. Keep raising the bar.
But challenge is not enough to sustain motivation. Demotivation comes from meaningless work. Give people a meaningful understanding of what they are doing.
- What is to be done (plan this together).
- How it is to be done (ask them for a plan that you must be happy with before they proceed).
- Why it is to be done (spend good time on this to help the person find meaning in the work)
In a white paper by Verserra Performance Leadership:
When employees take ownership of tasks and the action plan is clear, personal accountability emerges, lowering stress, increasing productivity, influencing job satisfaction and ultimately propelling the organization to its goals…?
Again those 2 requirements for your team players becoming accountable are:
- The plan is clear
- Employees take ownership of tasks
The best way for your team member to take ownership of their project is to organize it and demonstrate to you how they have organized it.
Once they are clear on their projects, and organized enough to take efficient action, your simple quick review meetings are the key to keeping them motivated.
Effective Coaching
It is your authority and coaching that must create the natural motivation to get things done.
Good coaches alternate between
- encouraging ambition – could you accomplish a little more in three months
- dampening excessive enthusiasms – let?s take it a step at a time. Limit to solid commitments
Achieve early successes
Let’s just try this one small thing and see how it will work
Lead them to discover the right answers for themselves.
If we did that, how would we handle these adverse consequences??
Motivational Maintainers (C. Bell, How to Create a High Performance Training Unit?, Training, October 1980)
- Clear goals
- Prompt feedback
- Rewards
- Treat them like winners
- Involve with decision making
- Seek their opinions often
- Provide autonomy in work
- Hold accountable for results
- Tolerate impatience
- Provide varied work opportunities
- Keep them informed
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