Boosting Team Morale

The motivation for this post came from a LinkedIn News team who wanted unique perspectives from people across the community on boosting team morale. Their reachout noted that managers impact 30-40% of the variability in team morale and overall performance, meaning that managers have a direct role in the general well-being of the team. The ask from the editor was my thoughts on boosting team morale and what I have done in the past and in current times? It definitely got my attention and I put my thoughts on paper.

• Focus on the intrinsic motivators for your team.

It generally boils down to your ethics centered around treating your team with fairness, honesty, respectfulness and responsibly.

• Focus on their advancement.

Advancement doesn’t need to be complex, keep it simple.

Advancement is necessarily not a promotion, it can be a lateral progression to help pivot them to a new job family or give them an opportunity to take training in an area that they are passionate about.

• Focus on your customer.

When you see an opportunity, give your team the opportunity to be creative, invent and simplify. Necessity is the mother of invention.

• Focus on metrics you have around employee satisfaction scores and dive-deep. Enterprises provide managers with access to such tools and metrics for a reason, they serve a purpose to drive a change for good.

A simple action as a team outing or activity may go a long way to drive up your employee satisfaction scores.

• Last but not least, focus on keeping the Day 1 culture. Reflection from a previous post I did on what Day 1 culture means to me.

Stay humble.

Be willing to learn every single day.

Feeling vulnerable is a good thing.

Have a strong focus on customers and working backwards.

Break down the problem.

Experiment constantly but time-box.

Focus on iterative progress.

When something fails, adopt and acclimate but not give up.

When you fail, capture lessons learned and acknowledge them.

Do the hard things over and over again.

Eliminate the clutter.

Passionately own your outcomes, good or bad.

Over and out.

Happy Friday!