If you’ve ever wanted to use your leadership skills to fill your team with energy, enthuasiam and motivation. Look no further than these Team Management 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. Because at the end of the day, nobody wants to follow the orders of 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. There’s just nothing more enfuriating than being told to do something you’d really rather not, to see your manager deciding not to do it either! So you won’t make any allies by telling you team behave in one way, but acting in another. By acting in line with your own orders, suggestions and goals, you create social pressure that encourages subordinates to act in the same way. When you blatantly flout your own rules – you’re creating justification for your employees to do the same. So if you could sum up this tip in one phrase, it would be, ‘obey yourself as if you were your own subordinate‘.

Lets be honest; if you’re woefully uninspired by your current job, then how can you expect your employees to be driven towards the targets you have set them? Team Management 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. 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. Show your enthuasiam in manner and tone of voice.
2. Visibly dedicate time and energy to the project.
3. Following up and compliment subordinates everytime they’ve done a good job.
4. Encourage operational excellence by constantly striving to improve your work
5. Be punctual and well organised.

So there you have it. Display your enthusiasm to your employees and let the infectious power of inspiration and energy unleash itself upon your workforce! This technique along with other team management tips on this website will hopefully allow you to focus on strategic and high-level work, and stop worrying about the day-to-day of your subordinates. If they’re motivated and focused- you know they’ll do a good job.  (In theory!)

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