Inspiring Team

Being a manager who inspires a team by following behaviors:

  • Transparent and open communication
  • Deal with change and ambiguity
  • Building the diverse and open team
  • Storytelling skills
  • Enabling team with goals achievement
  • Sharing and communicating company goals and vision
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Templates

How Leaders Inspire: Cracking the Code

What makes a leader inspiring? Companies that can answer this question have a powerful tool to increase their competitive edge. Inspired employees are more than twice as productive as satisfied employees, according to research Bain recently conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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Check Lists

  • PI in place for every team member
  • Having ways of working agreed with the team - do's/dont's
  • Development discussion with employees (PDPs)
  • OKRs/goals based on company needs, agreed with employees
  • Organizing group meetings with team - explain a strategy, change, OKRs
  • Set goals with OKRs
  • Google OKRs

Guiding Questions

Ask Yourself:

  • What does it mean for you to inspire other?
  • Who or what is inspiring for you?
  • How you define a diverse team?
  • Do you know your PI/managerial profile?
  • Do you know how to link goals with strategy?
  • Do you know how to praise people in public?
  • Do you know what motivates your team and patricular team members?
  • Do you communicate mission & vision to your team?
  • How you share a news with your team?
  • How you communicate and support change process in your team?

Ask Your Team:

  • What motivate you in a daily work?
  • What does it mean for you to have a inspiring manager?
  • What is the most difficult for you at work?
  • What kind of expectations you have from me as a manager?
  • Do you understand your goals and how they contribute to a global goals?
  • What do you find the most difficult about dealing with change?

Books

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Leaders Eat Last

Have you ever wondered what separates the companies able to pull together when times get tough from the ones who fall apart? The answer is effective leadership. Find out how to become a successful leader, able to create a healthy and productive working environment where people are eager to work for you and for each other. Leaders Eat Last is a guide to leading with compassion and integrity, positively affecting the behavior of those you are in charge of.

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Lead Vertically

When leaders inspire their teams with a vision of what is possible, passion meets production and truly great things start to happen. Craig Johnson offers a fresh look at the importance of building teams when the goal is not only success but fulfillment. Lead Vertically includes tools and exercises that can be adapted by any leader for teams of any size, as well as tips for recruiting, training, and strengthening teams. Leaders will learn to inspire, build trust, and motivate their teams by consistently and clearly communicating that the best days are ahead

Talks

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...

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How to Turn a Group of Strangers Into a Team

Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies "teaming," where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual problems. Recalling stories of teamwork on the fly, such as the incredible rescue of 33 miners trapped half a mile underground in Chile in 2010, Edmondson shares the elements needed to turn a group of strangers into a quick-thinking team that can nimbly respond to challenges.

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5 Ways to Lead In An Era of Contant Change

Who says change needs to be hard? Organizational change expert Jim Hemerling thinks adapting your business in today's constantly-evolving world can be invigorating instead of exhausting. He outlines five imperatives, centered around putting people first, for turning company reorganization into an empowering, energizing task for all.