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How to Motivate Your Team
Strategies for Motivating Teams
Ten Steps to Motivate Your Team
Get the complete contact information of your team members, including home, work and cell phones, email addresses, and mailing address. Create an email distribution list now -- you will need it later. Think through, prepare and rehearse the remarks you plan to deliver at the first meeting of your team. Even if the faces are already familiar, you should welcome people formally to the team. Be sure to describe how your vision aligns the success of the individual members with the success of the team and organization. Ask for any additions, comments and feedback. Ask team members to identify how they might best contribute to key areas. (Make the words come out of his/her mouth). Document your planned achievements -- put them in writing. Determine roles and responsibilities for each team member. Establish the immediate challenges and workload, then agree who will do what by when. Agree on the reporting structure, routines and resources requirements. Make it clear that you know mistakes will happen and problems will come up. The team should expect to resolve problems as part of any worthwhile undertaking. Acknowledge that contributions of individuals are important and that their knowledge and expertise are vital to the success of the team. Explain to team members how you envision all of you working together. Invite suggestions on how this can be achieved. While everyone is together, pick times that fit calendars. Restate who will do what by when -- the action steps that will be done by next meeting. "Thank you" is in order here! Send out an email summary with: the achievements in the meeting, action steps each person agreed to do by when, and, another big thank you. SHOW UP! (You can pretend to care, but you cannot pretend to BE THERE.) Remind people of the vision. Track progress on the plan. Recognize efforts. Celebrate achievements. You can never say thank you too much. Organizations, like teams, exist only to serve. Service is an act of grace. Synonyms for grace: elegance, charm, loveliness, poetry in motion, kindliness, benevolence, compassion, beauty. |
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