How to Get Your Team to Perform

Learning to manage other people is a leverage multiplier. These uncommon ideas will help you increase your team’s motivation, performance and spirits.

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A winning culture is one where normal behaviours enhance — or even enable — its ability to deliver unique value and implement its strategy. By contrast, a losing culture’s behaviours undermine company strategy.

Learn how to shape your culture (7 mins)…

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Goals and targets may be necessary but they tend to narrow our focus and can inhibit the wide-ranging thinking that leads to innovative and proactive solutions. Rather than drilling the ‘what’, emphasise the ‘why’ by linking goals back to the company’s mission.

Learn 12 motivation techniques (7 mins)…

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When you set an expectation upfront that online training is part of the manager’s role, it’s easier to recommend courses later without it seeming personal. For example, you might say to new managers:
‘If we are to scale, we need to build a culture that creates leaders. We all have areas that we can improve, and so we give all managers a budget for taking online training courses at least 2–3 times a quarter, to fuel their professional development.’

Learn how a team can self-train (5 mins)…

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Retrospectives are simple to run. They’re regular meetings to discuss what’s going well, what’s not going well, and how to improve as a team. But the effects can be transformative. People leave feeling appreciated, listened to, and understood, in a way that one-on-one feedback can’t achieve.

Learn how to run better retros (5 mins)…

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When you’re so focused on the peak of the mountain, it’s easy to lose sight of how far you’ve come. The art of celebrating the small wins isn’t about setting smaller goals — it’s about being grateful in the midst of uncertainty.

Learn 4 ways to celebrate (4 mins)…

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Any questions surrounding team performance? Hit reply and let me know.

Best wishes,
Dave

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