It’s not about doing more.
On the contrary, you will achieve better, faster, more innovative and lasting results when you help your team to:
- improve communication (ask the right questions, say the right things, at the right times, in the right way)
- increase collaboration (work as a true team, not a set of silo’d contributors)
- consistently identify and leverage both individual and collective strengths (stop filling in gaps… instead, bring everyone up to stellar performance!)
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Transcript of video: How to accelerate your team
Business is just people working with people, and if you can figure out how to help other people do their jobs better and enjoy showing up at the office in the morning they’re likely to do the same for you. Everybody wins.
I/we meet with executive leadership teams on a quarterly basis. And one of the things that we do is we make sure that as an organization, as a department, as a team, they are thinking strategically. It’s not just about people coming together to report out which different departments are working on, but how does the team lead the organization, spread the vision, communicate with impact, bring up new ideas. In that sense a team is a life force. But a team that doesn’t have everybody doing his or her best work is not going to do especially well.
Trust is incredibly important.
For instance one of the things that helps is for people to get to know one another beyond what they’re working on in the office day to day. You know, how was your weekend? How’s your mom feeling? Is your arthritis getting better? You don’t have to be overly personal but we’re all people working with people.
So the personal connection, for each person to bring to the team, hey, maybe you don’t know this but here are some things that I can do to help you. I have certain connections. I have certain skills. I have organizational history. And by the way, here’s what I need from you. Can you help me with X Y and Z, let’s really work collectively.
And when those kinds of conversations happen and people can ask one another for things without beating each other up or feeling there’s repercussions, trust grows and it thrives and teams do remarkably well.
Short background, I began working with a sales executive and his team they had over two years of declining profitability. They’d miss their numbers month, after month, after month and the organization was losing faith in him and his team, and he was burning out.
I came in began working with him as a trusted advisor, and ultimately started working with the team running my team accelerator sessions.
It’s remarkable, for the last six months they have had double-digit growth month, after month, after month, millions of dollars in growth. The president of the organization is doing backflips. She’s thrilled. She said, she’s never seen anything so dramatic, it’s amazing. And my client has said to me, Liz where were you 10 years ago?
He’s renewed, he loves what he’s doing, he’s thrilled with the results he and the team are getting.
Business is just people working with people, and if you can figure out how to help other people do their jobs better and enjoy showing up at the office in the morning they’re likely to do the same for you. Everybody wins.
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