How to Create a Hard Working Team WITHOUT Demotivating Or Upsetting

How to create a hard working team to deliver more is about creating motivating ENVIRONMENTS rather than increasing pressure. More team hours worked often does not move the “value produced” dial much UNLESS you combine it with another important action.  I share 4 approaches that motivate your team to work hard because they WANT to work hard --- ---  The goals and expectations you set for a team determine how hard they will work. It is like telling a runner they have a race the next day or telling a runner they have a 10km race the next day and they need to finish it within 45mins. Goals drive planning, which in turn drives work levels. Goals are part of the picture to persuade your team to work hard. There is a art to setting goals. Setting any arbitrary goal won’t motivate and might even be de-motivating.  You want your team to WANT to work harder. Trying to force them or pressurise them to work hard rarely works on its own. If fact you often get less work i.e. it is counterproductive. A hard working team that creates a lot of value chooses to work hard.    A team will only work as hard as its manager. If you don’t work hard, there is zero chance of your team working hard. What you WORK ON is just as important. Show you are working for the team rather than for you.  The leader of a team has a HUGE influence on the success of a team. The leader creates the environment, the rules and the expectations. It is like a micro-climate within a larger climate (or company culture). There is a ton of thing you can do to push your team to work harder while motivating them, keeping them very happy, and significantly increasing the value produced by the team. Finally, nothing stops a person working harder than when they feel unfairly treated. Balance is really important. In fact, the best managers offer slightly more to the team than they ask from the team.  If you have any questions on “How to Create a Hard Working Team WITHOUT Demotivating Or Upsetting”, leave email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.  Jess Coles Enhance.training