How Could This Be Handled? Issue #2: Motivating Team Members

Sometimes it seems impossible to reach certain team members – you may even wonder why they get up to come to this job each day because they seem so uninterested and removed.

But…they work here and you have to unlock the door that gets them turned on about working here!

Volumes have been written on this topic, yet the bottom line always comes back to “you can’t motivate others, they’re motivated by their own desires”.
 

If that’s the case, what are you, the team leader, supposed to do to light the fire in some team members?

Well, you CAN - and as an effective leader, you MUST - address the situation!

Read more here…

Leaders as Teachers

So often leaders forget – or overlook – their role as teachers, but teaching is a BIG part of successful leadership. Ken Blanchard’s current newsletter has  great article on the topic  - it begins with:

"A lot of leaders are disappointed these days. They work hard to create clear messages to their people but often, when they follow up at the end of the month, they find that little has changed. It’s a pattern that Vicki Halsey, Vice President of Applied Learning at The Ken Blanchard Companies, has seen many times.

"It’s because leaders confuse telling with teaching," she explains. "If leaders want people to develop new behaviors, they have to become better teachers of what to do and how to do it."

Most leaders are trained in how to succeed in business. They know how to create strategic initiatives, allocate resources, and implement plans. But few leaders have been trained to teach..." Read the entire article here