Ten Ways Teams Can Motivate Team Building and Performance
Team members need to understand how they are responsible for much of their own motivation and performance. Each member can help motivate other members to have better attitudes and be more productive in teamwork. In many ways, motivating team members to build a better team not only increases team performance but also develops better individual behaviors and personal job performance.
Presented for your consideration are ten possible ways for team members and leaders to motivate within their team. Most of these ideas will require very little budget or management approval. Most can be implemented simply through a change in team responsibility or the way the team interacts with each other and encourages each member to grow personally.
- Rotate team roles such as meeting leader, data collector, recorder/historian, celebration planner, etc.
- Ask for their ideas when troubleshooting and involve them in the implementation process.
- Promote a sense of ownership in the project, work, improvement or customer satisfaction.
- Make sure members understand team or project goals, milestones, and deadlines.
- Don’t blame individual members, instead find ways to help and encourage.
- Show respect for team members and expect trust in return.
- Encourages creativity and risk taking.
- Assign appropriate assignments based on ability or opportunity to learn.
- Be flexible by allowing necessary time off and sharing work responsibilities.
- Keep the team work environment informal while providing structure in meetings.
Selecting from these ten ways to motivate team membership, team building, and higher performance will allow the team to implement a strategy to develop and improve individual performance as well. All that is needed is to change the way team members interact and increase the stimulation of individual members’ personal growth. These ideas can help team members accept responsibility for their team and individual progress. The overall result should be better team member attitudes, better team behaviors, and increased productivity at work.