Are you currently leading a team in your organization?
You want to find more ways on how to add value to them, how to
motivate them as well, so that everyone's pulling in the same
direction towards a common mission?
Well, if you're an executive, then in this video, what I want to share
with you are five ways on how you can add more value to your executive
team.
And this is key because one of the most important skill sets of a
leader and as an executive is to be able to coach your team members
for success, to be able to fully utilize our team members as well, to
create a culture of collaboration and also momentum staying and
maintaining momentum towards the mission.
So in this video, you're going to come away with very five, very
tactical, very practical tips as well.
And you can bring those into your organization and coach them for
success.
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So these five ways are going to be very easy to remember because I
have designed them so they all start with the letter E, right?
So the first way, how to add more value to your team is to express
clarity of vision.
So what do I mean by that?
Vision.
Vision is where do we want to go.
Which direction are we heading?
Right?
Vision is the overarching mission of this is the hall of fame goal.
This is where we want to go.
And this is really important because without that, without clarity of
vision, there's no alignment on the team.
So expression expressing clarity of vision creates alignment because a
players want to know where they want to go.
A players want to know this is I'm on a winning team and you have a
players on your team because you chose there for a reason.
You want to continue to motivate them and inspire them to work hard,
to be innovative, to be productive.
And if they are a players, they want to know which way are we heading.
Am I on a winning team?
Is this direction inspiring to me as well?
And does it align with my own individual life purpose?
So that's why it is infinitely important as a leader of your teams, to
be able to create alignment by telling them this is where we're going.
And this is the clear picture of where we're heading.
And every single team member that is reporting to understands what the
vision is.
And you are constantly consistently sharing the vision and getting
them excited about it.
If you know that you have a good vision, you know that you have a
clear, a clear vision when everybody on the team can articulate it
themselves with certainty and clarity.
And you know that it is a clear vision when every single member of
your team can get on board with it and they're excited about it.
And that's what truly creates alignment.
The second way to add value on your team is to exhibit transparency,
right?
Most of us have been inside of a company where they kept secrets from
us, where they made things a mystery and they didn't and they had
displayed a lack of transparency, right?
I definitely have.
Comment below if that has been you you've experienced that before a
lack of transparency, right?
It could be that maybe the higher ups did not express to you what the
goals were, or maybe the higher-ups did not share with the teams, why
certain decisions were being made and said, they just told you that
decisions have already been made.
Right.
So that lack of transparency from executive leadership, that lack of
transparency from team leaders causes a lack of trust.
The reason why it causes a lack of trust is because everybody, every
individual on your team wants to know that what they're doing is
making a difference.
They want to know that their efforts are contributing to the greater
good.
They want to know that what they're contributing to is making a
difference, and that gives them meaningful.
That gives them meaning in their life.
Every individual wants to know that.
So as soon as you lack transparency, what that does is it creates
questioning of leadership.
They lack they don't trust the leadership.
And the reason why is because when there is a lot, a lack of
transparency, it causes individuals, team members to be inside of a
bubble inside of their own individual bubble, where they don't know
which direction they're going.
They don't know what they're contributing and how that's making a
difference at all.
And so that causes a lack of meaningful purpose in their work.
But what does transparency mean?
Cause we hear that thrown around a lot on the internet, but what
exactly is transparency and transparency on what?
Transparency is, as simple as this, it simply means having metrics on
where we're going, because when it comes to metrics on where we're
going now, every team member knows exactly how far we are from our
goals.
And every team member will know whether or not we are, we are
successful in what we're doing.
And also going back to the first way as well.
They under every team member has clarity of the vision.
They know where we're going exactly.
They know how far we're progressing.
They know every step of the way in their day to day how their work and
their efforts are contributing towards that.
So they want to know for moving forward because every person wants to
know if we're moving forward or not.
And if we are moving forward, it creates that meaningful experience.
If we're not moving forward, then what do we need to change so that we
can create that momentum?
So transparency is key when you exhibit transparency, it means that
transparency is important to you first and foremost.
And therefore you can create that culture of trust, trusting in your
leadership, trusting in the momentum that we're going and trusting in
the vision as well.
The third way to add value to your team as a team leader is to ensure
team utilization because let's face it every single member of your
team desires to be contributing at their fullest potential.
Like you've been there.
Imagine when you were earlier on your career path, every step of your
career growth, didn't you also desire to be contributing at your
fullest potential?
Reflect on those moments where you felt like you had a lot more
potential than you were giving in an organization, or you were given
on that team reflect back or reflect back on how that felt.
Because when it comes to team members, if they feel that they're not
working at their fullest capacity, if a few of them are not
contributing at their fullest potential, what happens is that they
don't trust the leadership and they start to pull back.
They start to wonder why they're there.
They start to wonder if they're, if they're whether or not what
they're doing is important or not, or they even start to wonder why.
And they fill in the blanks as to why we're not being used at full
capacity, because they know they have so much more to give than how
come we're not given these opportunities.
How come I'm not being utilized.
If, if every member of your team is under utilized, they will pull
back.
And when they pull back, what that creates now is a lack of momentum
because you have one person, any individual who's not feeling utilized
will start to pull back at any time you have one person or more than
one person pull back.
It really creates a lack of momentum and a lack of productivity.
And there've been studies that showed that even a single individual on
a team, if only one person was under utilized, it can cause as much as
80% reduction on the productivity of the whole team, just one member
who feels underutilized.
So that's why the third way is really crucial is to ensure team
utilization, that every single member of your team is working at full
capacity, because if they are employed, but they're not employed at
their full capacity, there's a lot of questions and insecurity that
can come up into play.
So ensuring utilization of every member can, it can also ensure for
you that the team is moving forward and that has maximum and optimize
productivity.
So far, we talked about expressing clarity of vision also, and having
transparency on your teams.
And now we talked about ensuring that every team member is utilized.
All of these things require systems and processes that you put in
place, but it also requires systematic management of your people.
It also requires it also involves effective communication of the
vision and being transparent as well.
How do you communicate to your team members?
Because it is inevitable that sometimes there will be team members who
disagree with the vision who disagree with a certain level of metrics
as well, or who have a different ways of doing things.
And so there's going to be always a complexity of landscape of
teamsmanship and managing teams as well.
There's always a complex landscape, but if you're somebody who truly
values your team and you want to take your team performance to the
next level, because you want to take your own career path to the next
level as well, then I invite you to work with me the below this video
in the description, there's a link to apply to my executive coaching
program.
And this is where every single week I go through training with a team
of executives on how you can be more effective as a team leader, how
you can coach your team, individual team members for success and how
you can navigate the complexities of communicating with different team
members who have different perspectives, who come from different
educational backgrounds and different work histories as well.
How do you effectively navigate that?
And what happens when there are conflicts that arise?
How do you navigate through those as well and different human values
as well?
How do you navigate through those?
So if you're somebody who genuinely and sincerely wants to develop
that skill set, then submit an application below to talk to either
myself or a member of my team.
And I look forward to working with you on the inside.
The fourth way to add more value to your teams as a team leader is to
exemplify your values.
Because as a team leader, you have your own personal and professional
values and your values are within the context of your role in the
organization.
And definitely within the context of your goals that you want to
achieve for the teams, the projects and the company at large.
So when it comes to your professional and your personal values, it's
important to communicate to those, to the team because your team needs
to be in alignment with your values as well.
But one of the most important ways and effective ways to communicate
what's important to you is to exemplify it for yourself, which means
that you have absolute congruency inside and out congruency.
So what that means, what that means is that it's one, it's one thing
to say, this is our values.
These are our team tenets, but it's another thing to live them out
yourself, to be practicing what the tenets are to be practicing the
way that you want the culture to become.
So that's the best and most effective way to communicate to your
teams, what is important.
And these are the tenets that we live by on a day-to-day basis.
So exemplify your values.
Don't just tell them that these are important this is what our team
culture is going to be exemplify that in the way you live, the way you
work, the way that you communicate with your teams and so on.
So that is the fourth way, exemplify your values.
And let's go right ahead and talk about the fifth way.
The fifth and final way on how you can add more values to your teams
is really quite simple.
And that is to ensure transformation.
Transformation is key because you want to have be in momentum.
You want to optimize your team's productivity.
You want to optimize the collaboration and interactions of your team.
But the problem is that most leadership out there is transactional is
transactional.
It's touch and go, it's fly in, check in or hover around to make sure
that they're doing their work or micro-managing right.
That's very transactional, but transformational is very different.
Transformation is where you are ensuring that every team member, every
individual team member is being coached for success, that you
understand what their individual values are and how they know for
themselves, how their own values are aligned with the vision of the
team and aligned with your values as well.
So this is where you're ensuring individual optimization, providing
resources, consolidating resources, where they need it, but also being
able to communicate with them and coach them towards a greater
productivity towards the success they want in their own individual
career paths.
So these are five ways that you can ensure that you add the most
values to your team, and that where you build a culture of trust and
more importantly, your team stays in momentum.
If you desire a little bit more content on how do I speak to my teams?
How do I ensure that they have, we have mutual respect with each
other, then in the video coming up right up next, I'm going to share
with you six ways on how you can communicate with your teams, that,
that the respect, your leadership that's coming up right up next.
I'll see you there.