Building a strong team with real active and motivated members requires strong leadership. You need quality skills to make it a reality.
Well-integrated and high-performing teams always have a leader who creates the environment and establishes the operating principles and values that are conducive to high performance – a strong team with real active and motivated members.
Before envisioning to build a strong team with real active and motivated members you should evaluate yourself on the following significant behaviors that high-impact leaders consistently demonstrate:
- defining clear goals or a vision of the future in accordance with your overall organizational aims
- creating blueprints for action to achieve those goals
- using clear language to build trust, encourage forward thinking and create energy within your team (“powerful conversations”)
- getting your team involved to become passionate champions
Do you need to work on some of the skills above? Given the time, commitment and determination with your SFI business, as you grow and develop those above behaviors, you’ll be able to demonstrate them to your team members.
Practically as a Team Leader you can do the following steps to build a strong team – real active and motivated members:
- Create good working relationships within your team
Healthy relationships offer many benefits: higher team morale, increased productivity, greater collaboration, and more freedom to focus on realizing the potential of being an SFI affiliate.
- Create competition
Take advantage of your team members' natural competitiveness, and encourage healthy competition as a way to engage your people, boost morale, and make their time well spent in SFI with more fun. Competitions are also excellent for improving performance. Use your Leadership page to organize contest offering rewards/incentives for high performance, bet it sponsoring, collecting VPs, etc.
Focus the contest on a strategic business goal that you all need to meet. Post news about wins, display real-time updates and standings, and celebrate achievements.
To make the competition interesting and valuable, offer a small prize or reward (TC Gift Certificate, TCredits, share of S-Builder Co-op, etc.).
- Recognize Achievements
One of the best ways to motivate your team members is to recognize their achievements on a regular basis. Praising your people could be as simple as sending them E-Card or posting your congratulations on the Stream Posts, when they reach their goals.
Recognition from you is a powerful motivator, but it can be equally as valuable when it comes from a2a friends and from the SFI community through SFI Forum. This will build morale and strengthen relationships within your team.
- Become a Coach/Mentor to them:
Analyzing and reporting on your team's performance metrics is likely to be one of your top priorities, but you're also there to encourage your people to develop themselves professionally.
To become an effective coach or mentor, especially to struggling team members, spend some one-on-one time with the people who need your assistance most. Look over their last performance, and ask them open-ended questions to find out which areas they need to work on in growing their SFI business. List the top skills that they need to improve, and direct them to the Training tab to access what they need to do this.
Extraordinary Team Leaders employ distinctive forms of verbal communication. It is what these Team Leaders say and what they don’t say that gives them an advantage in getting teams to high-performance levels. These Team Leaders truly mean what they say. They don’t mix their messages, fudge meanings or use ambiguous words. Their conversations are always candid, clear, and followed by committed action.
These are “powerful conversations,” because they make blueprints come alive and create positive attitudes and energy on the part of team members. They also encourage mutual understanding between team members and the Team Leaders.
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