3 Long-Term Ways To Motivate Your Team To Do Great Things And Drive Massive Results

Most companies get in the way of their teams trying to do good things.

They manufacture policies and short-term motivational tactics as a false sense of getting stuff done. They want people to “put in the time,” but how do you define time? Work isn’t somewhere you go; it’s something you do. Work is about achieving results.

These are three long-term ways to help your team to do great things:

1/ Provide a safe place to work.

People need meaning in their work, and it’s up to the company to make that connection every day.

“When everyone is made a stakeholder and there are clear responsibilities for each function, the employees working in those functions are happier and naturally become more productive because they are in charge. It becomes their line, their department, their bagel shop,” writes Jason Jennings.

You provide a safe place to work by:

• Focusing on a results-only work environment.
• Allowing people to make mistakes and learn from them.
• Building a team-oriented approach.
• Demanding diversity.

“Highly productive companies thrive on the different opinions and viewpoints that new employees from other cultures and foreign industries bring.”

2/ Fight an external enemy.

Focus on fueling your companies competitive spirit towards a significant external goal.

Competing against fellow team members and departments is wasteful. You’re sabotaging company results. Instead, point that energy towards an external villain.

Keep everyone focused on achievement.

3/ Get out of the way.

You must put trust in your group of carefully selected team members.

You hired them for a reason. Successful leaders get out of the way and give their teams room to execute what’s most important.

They help remove all unnecessary obstacles so their teams have a better runway to take off.

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