Re:Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Microm...
by Sammi on Saturday December 19, 2015 @05:52PM
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Yes exactly. You want people to take ownership of their work. To put their personal and professional pride into the work. Simply, you do this by involving people in the decisions on how to do the work. Then they are doing what they decided to do. It's theirs.
Open a discussion. Take input. Play Socrates. Steer the discussion when it goes of track, but make sure that people still feel in control. That they have control, and that they matter. People want meaning and purpose most of all. This may sound Machiavellian, but people can be lured and persuaded into doing something they otherwise wouldn't, but they have to feel they made the choice themselves.
Go with purpose first and don't assume it's the wrong path if it doesn't work at first. It's a hard path. Some simple things to start with: Do you ask your employees to provide input? Do you try to understand their input and adapt the company and processes accordingly? Do you show them how well the company does when they do their job well and how much it costs all of you when they do a mistake? Think of games. Show people numbers to optimize and they will do that because that's what we like to do!
Please come back and tell us your results from trying, maybe also start writing a blog. That's how you can interact with other managers to learn from each other, and to some degree to not feel too alone. ;-)