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 acting upon the guidance you give to your team. After all, nobody likes to follow a hypocrite.

Display your own enthusiasm and inspiration. You cannot expect to build enthusiasm and inspiration within the team you manage if you do not display these characteristics yourself. People hate obeying hypocrites, so you won’t make any allies by coaching your team to behave one way, and then ignoring those rules yourself. Lets be honest; if you really find that you’re so uninspired by the current task that that you cannot enthuse yourself, then how can you expect your subordinates to be driven towards the targets you have set them? Team Leadership aims to improve your leadership skills and techniques as much as possible, but applying those skills in practise must be a well thought out and genuine process. Enthusiasm is strikingly contagious, but if you simply desire to manipulate those beneath you, you’ll spread nothing but resentment among your team. If you’re in the situation where you have to pretend to be enthused; you really need to think about changing your career because quite frankly, no amount of leadership advice will make you happy.

How do I display my Enthusiasm?

1. By showing your eagerness in your tone of voice.
2. By dedicating time and energy to the project to ensure its success.
3. By following up and complimenting collegues when they’ve done a good job.
4. By generating and implementing new ideas and ways of performing your task.
5. By being punctual and organised.

Provided you are truely inspired by what you do, and you display this confidently to your team mates, you will find this will infect the culture of your team; spreading through your colleagues at a dizzying rate! This technique will hopefully allow you to focus on strategic and higher level work, and stop worrying about the gritty details of your subordinates. If they’re inspired and enthused- you can trust they’ll do a good job.

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