If you’ve ever wanted to use your leadership to fill your team with energy, enthuasiam and motivation. Look no further than these Team Leadership articles. In the next week I’ll be writing about a few key strategies to enthuse your teams. Today’s article is on the importance of talking to your teammates dreams. After all, members of your team won’t need chasing up if they believe their actually working torwards their own goals. Here’s how to drive your team into that brilliant state of mind.

Talk to their Dreams. An unfortunate part of the concept of day to day teamwork is that usually teams are assembled to complete tasks that their members don’t truely want to acheive. Perhaps your teammates would rather working for themselves, or even retire early! They probably going to have a grand plan as to how they are going to acheive these long term goals as well. These alternative goals are wrongly viewed as ‘distractions’ by many team leaders across countless companies and institutions.

This truely needn’t be the case!

To put this team leadership technique into practise, you need to talk to each member of your team indivdiually, and either directly or indirectly,  show your team mates that their current task will take them one small step closer towards their dreams.

Easier said than done? Well allow me give you an example.

If a team mates dream is to own their own business; don’t let their motivation and focus fall as they come to terms with the gap between what they desire, and what they’re currently doing. Instead, emphasise on how working on their project will eventually help them in the long term. Describe to them how they will pick up countless new ideas skills from the current task, which will prepare themselves for the entrepeneurial life. Show that when they do become an independant businessperson, they will have an crucial edge over their competitors.

If a team mate’s dream is to rise to CEO within their company, then you should mention the transferable skills they’ll gain from this task and be able to put on their CV for their next promotion. Explain that this will give them a fighting chance at being noted by management as a potential leader.

In short; all work gives experience in one form or another. This means that whatever task you are assigned to, you will somehow be able to relate the benefits to your teammates in terms of their desires. Once your team leadership shows them that their current task actually slots neatly into their grand plan, they’ll gladly take care of the rest!

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