HOW TO MOTIVATE IN TEAMS
What?
The greatest truly successful teams have emotional and
social well-being. In the book The Emotionally
Intelligent Team there is model that shows skills that need to be attained to have
sustained productivity. One of those
things on the outer most circles is motivation.
I believe motivation plays a huge role within a team. It requires each team member to know each
other and meet their individual desires.
Also it allows the team to set difficult goals, reinforcing success, and being persistent. In order to motivate, the team has to
consider the energy levels of individuals and responsibility’s within the team. Motivating someone can be a difficult
process. Successful team leaders igniteand inspire they do not pressure.
Pressuring teammates to do work only works temporally. Instead, connecting with your team, building relationships
is a better way to motivate your team.
So What?
Knowing
team members well enough to find out what motivates them takes time but the
effort will be much rewarded in the end. All the time spent getting to know each other
is helping the team develop another important skill, communication. Connecting with team members also increases
team unity which drives motivation. Another
way to encourage participation in a team is to empower members. Giving power shows control, control increases
engagement. All of these skills build
off of each other and drives the team to become better. When new challenges arise, which they will, the
team should be able to determine what there motivating factor is allowing it to
inspire them.
Now What?
Motivation
is great to get your team moving, but it takes more than that to continue on
the road to success. Once a team has
found their inspiration it’s time to work on the other areas of the
diagram. Positive mood, team identity,
conflict resolution, stress tolerance, emotional awareness, and last not least communication.
After mastering all of these skills the
team will have better trust, empathy, loyalty, and decision making. This is a long process not every team will
reach this level of performance. Also
not every team needs to perform all of these perfectly to be successful. If a team does achieve all of these traits it
will have emotional and social well-being allowing all of its efforts to be
focused on the task at hand. So
communicate with members of your team and find out what makes then tick, use
that and create a better more motivated team.
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