Effective leaders simply put the interest of others before themselves. If you are responsible for others, or manage a group or team, you must have their best interests at heart if you are to achieve success. The team comes first.
My recent experience comes with managing a technical team responsible for maintaining operations at 24/7 manufacturing facility. Prior to joining the group, the team suffered with low morale, poor performance, and high turnover.
We discussed our objectives and began tracking those objectives on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. We would celebrate our incremental improvements, and continually communicate our progress.
The acknowledgement and gratitude of team members or personal relations is of the utmost importance! We all have a human need to feel connected, recognized, and loved. When your team knows that you will do anything for them, they will produce results that will simply amaze you and everyone involved.
Our team went from consistent under-performance, to excelling on a regular basis. Outstanding monthly performance is now the expected result. The team has gone from never attaining the monthly metric to now exceeding the number for 24 consecutive months. Simply tremendous performance!
But Why?
What is the difference in essentially the same personnel? The answer of course is Leadership. Leadership without the EGO is the key. When the leader ensures the team that is doing the work receives the praise, acknowledgement, and rewards, the whole group and organization will flourish.
Let go of your ego. Put your people first, champion them, celebrate them, and watch them
work wonders.
To your Success,
Coach K
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