Tips To Inspire Your Team
As a manager or supervisor, your staff looks to you for leadership and guidance. Typically, you can provide that leadership in one of two ways. You can dictate to your staff to do what they need to do or you can inspire them to perform. Which do you think will prove to be the most productive?
As a leader, we create the work place environment in which people function. If it is one of fear, then people will no longer take risks. Create an atmosphere of criticism, and your staff’s confidence erodes. However, if you build an environment of trust, you empower your employees to do their best. You build a high performance team.
Here are some components to inspire and build a team!
Trust
Educator and activist Booker T. Washington once said, “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” If you set boundaries, trust can be cultivated in such a way that your team actual thrives and becomes productive. When team members feel that they have the freedom to make decisions, to take risks or to speak their mind, they step up to the plate and deliver. As a leader, you have to embrace the position that knowing the “rules”, your team will make the right calls on their own, and they need to know that you will support them.
As a leader, we create the work place environment in which people function. If it is one of fear, then people will no longer take risks. Create an atmosphere of criticism, and your staff’s confidence erodes. However, if you build an environment of trust, you empower your employees to do their best. You build a high performance team.
Here are some components to inspire and build a team!
Trust
Educator and activist Booker T. Washington once said, “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” If you set boundaries, trust can be cultivated in such a way that your team actual thrives and becomes productive. When team members feel that they have the freedom to make decisions, to take risks or to speak their mind, they step up to the plate and deliver. As a leader, you have to embrace the position that knowing the “rules”, your team will make the right calls on their own, and they need to know that you will support them.
Reward and Recognition
Everyone wants to believe that the job they are doing matters; that they are making a direct contribution to the success of the organization. Most people want to be held to a higher standard and level of expectation. Conversely, they also expect to be recognized and applauded when they reach or exceed those expectations or standard. Recognizing and/or rewarding a team member for a job well done does not mean you have to spend a lot of money to come up with a rewards program. However, developing a cost-effective but significant ways to reward your staff for a job well done does send a positive message that you value the contribution of your staff.
Opportunity
Opportunity allows those who are striving to achieve more to do so by learning new skills and experiencing new things. Opportunity energizes people and motivates them to perform at a higher level. In short, it raises the bar.
Opportunity allows those who are striving to achieve more to do so by learning new skills and experiencing new things. Opportunity energizes people and motivates them to perform at a higher level. In short, it raises the bar.
Enthusiasm
If everyone on the team believes they are working together toward a common goal – whatever that may be – they are more likely to enthusiastically commit themselves to it. As a leader, you have a tremendous impact on building that enthusiasm for the job. If you are enthusiastic and charged up about your own work, you instill that enthusiasm in your team.
As a leader, you have the ability to influence your team and their performance. If you believe in creating a working environment that fosters trust and enthusiasm while providing recognition and opportunity, then you are building a sustainable high-performing team.
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With a degree in Accounting, certified as a personal trainer, and primary function as a business development coach; Tom Perkins works with personal training departments, fitness professionals, management of health clubs, as well as fitness product and sports nutrition companies in the areas of sales, marketing, and promotion; operations and administration, and staffing and human resource management. With 6 startups in 17 years under his belt and over 20 years of working with the fitness industry Tom leads companies to profitability through Fitness Industry Solutions www.fitnessindustrysolutions.com.
If everyone on the team believes they are working together toward a common goal – whatever that may be – they are more likely to enthusiastically commit themselves to it. As a leader, you have a tremendous impact on building that enthusiasm for the job. If you are enthusiastic and charged up about your own work, you instill that enthusiasm in your team.
As a leader, you have the ability to influence your team and their performance. If you believe in creating a working environment that fosters trust and enthusiasm while providing recognition and opportunity, then you are building a sustainable high-performing team.
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With a degree in Accounting, certified as a personal trainer, and primary function as a business development coach; Tom Perkins works with personal training departments, fitness professionals, management of health clubs, as well as fitness product and sports nutrition companies in the areas of sales, marketing, and promotion; operations and administration, and staffing and human resource management. With 6 startups in 17 years under his belt and over 20 years of working with the fitness industry Tom leads companies to profitability through Fitness Industry Solutions www.fitnessindustrysolutions.com.
