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Other Added - Managing Your Team (Part 2) - Encouraging Reluctant Team Members
The Story of Frank BettgerSales is primarily a numbers game, and if you ever needed to be convinced of that, the story of Frank Bettger (How I Multiplied My Income and Happiness in Selling) is one of the best!Frank had been an American pro baseballer until a shoulder injury forced him suddenly from the game, with no business training and no experience. Eventually, after struggling financially and with a wife and baby to support, Frank
In a move to cut down costs, producers are exploring around the globe in search for the lowest cost exporters/suppliers. Lured towards developing countries in south-east Asian region for lower-wages, transportation industry is stretching its reach longer than ever before. Major players are focusing overseas markets for outsourcing cheap manufacturing as well as expanding their businesses. This result in outbound logistics. And acceleration in manufacturing
Before we go much further, I agree that the overall responsibility lies with the team leader BUT as team members we all have a duty of care, we all carry the responsibility to succeed.
No brainer, but I'll ask it anyway - do you want your team to fail or be successful?
Quick point about the team leader. Although the clues and tips in these articles are aimed at how the team leader can act in a positive way, if you recognise a given trait in yourself, recognise that there is something that can be done positively to help improve the productivity of the team.
Let's meet the first of these characters - The Reluctant Team Member
Even just one can significantly impact the team dynamic, cause distraction and delay progress.
I cannot over emphasise that if any other team member discounts or under values the inputs a reluctant team member makes, the team leader runs a huge risk of increasing the reluctance, not minimising it.
Why is an individual team member struggling, reluctant to participate? Can we determine the root cause(s)?
Does he or she actually believe they are reluctant, maybe not!
"Listen when I have something to contribute, I will."
Remember, we don't all have the same values and these values can drive our beliefs and actions. Also we are not talking about rights and wrongs here, just differences.
Also, in the context of being a team player, we may have differing needs...
So, the issue is not that we can be different with different needs. The problems arise when either as team leaders or team members we do not encourage the so-called reluctant team members to participate more (and, perhaps encourage the more extrovert of us, to listen more - see part 3, coming next).
What Can The Team Leader Do Constructively?
One of the most powerful marketing tools you can use is the customer testimonial. Since the person giving the testimonial has actually paid for your product or service, prospective customers often give these more weight than other marketing materials you may produce.Who should use testimonials? Anyone. Contractors can have a folder of written testimonials to show clients when they are quoting on a job. A clothing store can use excepts from testimonia
Let's meet the first of these characters - The Reluctant Team Member
Even just one can significantly impact the team dynamic, cause distraction and delay progress.
I cannot over emphasise that if any other team member discounts or under values the inputs a reluctant team member makes, the team leader runs a huge risk of increasing the reluctance, not minimising it.
Why is an individual team member struggling, reluctant to participate? Can we determine the root cause(s)?
Does he or she actually believe they are reluctant, maybe not!
"Listen when I have something to contribute, I will."
Remember, we don't all have the same values and these values can drive our beliefs and actions. Also we are not talking about rights and wrongs here, just differences.
Also, in the context of being a team player, we may have differing needs...
So, the issue is not that we can be different with different needs. The problems arise when either as team leaders or team members we do not encourage the so-called reluctant team members to participate more (and, perhaps encourage the more extrovert of us, to listen more - see part 3, coming next).
What Can The Team Leader Do Constructively?
Common sense appears to be a rare commodity these days. Why is this so?In an era when the emphasis seems to be on all things young, beautiful and sometimes shallow its about time we took stock of ourselves and did our businesses a favor by employing older workers! Age discrimination is a terrible injustice that has far reaching effects on our economy where ever we are.When I was much younger I used to watch these older workers with wonderment
Does he or she actually believe they are reluctant, maybe not!
"Listen when I have something to contribute, I will."
Remember, we don't all have the same values and these values can drive our beliefs and actions. Also we are not talking about rights and wrongs here, just differences.
Also, in the context of being a team player, we may have differing needs...
So, the issue is not that we can be different with different needs. The problems arise when either as team leaders or team members we do not encourage the so-called reluctant team members to participate more (and, perhaps encourage the more extrovert of us, to listen more - see part 3, coming next).
What Can The Team Leader Do Constructively?
The production of concrete roof tiles in the world is growing constantly, the investment is not so big like to invest in a clay roof tile factory and also the advantages from a concrete roof tile are many.Concrete roof tile machinery is a very profitable business if you plan to produce 3,000 pieces in 8 hours to 50,000 pieces in 8 hours.An extruder is the key , because when you use a concrete extruder to produce your concrete roof tiles you wi
So, the issue is not that we can be different with different needs. The problems arise when either as team leaders or team members we do not encourage the so-called reluctant team members to participate more (and, perhaps encourage the more extrovert of us, to listen more - see part 3, coming next).
What Can The Team Leader Do Constructively?
For many years, I have tracked the cycles in hiring and job hunting to see if there are discernable patterns to job hunting success.Although there have been exceptions (such as in the opst-9/11 recessions), the two best times of the year to find work are in the period following Labor Day and in the period following the start of the new year.The reasons for this are pretty simple.In the post-Labor Day boomlet, job hunters believe that wi
The next article will look at Team Members Who Dominate
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