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Taking pride in the place one works is one of the keys to building a successful team. But how does one build that sense of pride.
Think for a moment why you are proud of your family, the car you drive, the house you live in, or the organizations to which you belong. Part of the reason is your sense of playing a major part in that group or place. You have a sense of ownership—being a critical gear in a bigger thing than yourself.
One way to assess how people in your organization feel about the organization is to assess the ownership feelings people have in regard to the organization and use that information to build an action plan to increase that sense of ownership.
In his book The Motivational Team Leader, Dr. Lewis E. Losoncy put together a list he calls “Ten Crucial Things To Remember and Ten Practical Things to Do.” Use Losoncy’s list as a reflection piece for your leadership or administrative team. Talk through each item, have each building administrator rate her/his building and discuss what they see going on and brainstorm ways to grow and make things even better.
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- Remember: One of the most basic human needs is to belong and contribute to a greater whole than oneself.
DO: Think about each of your people to assess the degree to which his or her need to belong and contribute is satisfied at work. Those who you conclude are not getting their needs satisfied are those who need your intervention to become part of the team.
- Remember: Many people are inclined to think me rather than team in their actions, an it becomes the responsibility of the leader to develop a plan to change the mental sets to we.
DO: Initiate an active team power campaign. Talk up the team at your staff meetings. Fill the environment with reminders for everyone to think team and to work together.
- Remember: When you heighten the natural competition that already exists among your people, you create more losers than winners. It is a natural psychological process for losers to defend themselves by blaming, making excuses, or claiming that the winner “got all the breaks.” Build team power by encouraging cooperation and discouraging competition among your people.
DO: Analyze your everyday “way of being” with your people. Are there times when you play one person against another? If so, be sensitive to finding ways to encourage cooperation among your people.
- Remember: While many leaders make the mistake of believing the way to motivate people is by highlighting competition, the motivating leader know that highlighting cooperation is a more effective approach to developing all of the people.
DO: Point out cooperative behavior whenever you see it; for instance, one person sharing knowledge, helping , supporting, or encouraging another. The membership will soon realize what the leader values. Be a cooperative focuser.
- Remember: By creating a team theme as opposed to an individual theme, the leader brings in more of the resources of the organization.
DO: Bring in the out, lift up the down, and help everyone to be contributing team member by team them in everything you do.
- Remember: To build team power, it helps t understand the social structure of your people. One of the most effective tools a leader can use to achieve this is a sociogram.
DO: Construct a sociogram to help identify the leader the rejectee, the isolates, mutual friends, and mutual enemies. This is an effective way to develop strategies to help everyone to be an involved, contributing member of the team.
(Special Note: See the Sociogram Tool)
- Remember: In the hustle and bustle of your challenges as a leader, it is easy to overlook the feelings of a new person thrown into the organization for the first time.
DO: Be sensitive to a new person and have a plan to help minimize the person’s first-day anxieties. Weave a welcome mat for new members.
- Remember: After a person is disciplined or returns from a period of time away, he or she may feel alienated from the team.
DO: Have a plan to welcome people back and make them feel like a member of the team again.
- Remember: Self-esteem is important, as is team esteem.
DO: As leader of the team, build pride through rallying around the team’s resources, achievements, and uniquenesses.
- Remember: Most successful teams are not composed of individuals, but instead have people who work together.
DO: Make team a regular part of your vocabulary and help everyone feel the pride of that winning touchdown scored by one person, blocked by ten others, and supported and encouraged by the rest of the team.
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(Losoncy, p 218-220)
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