The guidelines align with team building & executive coaching activities. Illustrating through activities a team and person develop exceptions and see ‘what works’ in a context they’re not used too and is still familiar because they just made it happen.
We’ve become afraid to accept that we need managers to create shared and common direction. While looking for ‘Leadership’ to save the day.
The areas of the work you find relevant, you will ascribe value to, and be motivated to do more of that stuff. The areas of the work you find to be irrelevant you may still do. And will eventually try to stop doing because they are of little value to you – causing unmotivation.
Using good decision-making procedures can have a highly positive effect on your team and the work that the team must complete. Using the actual work for Team Building.
Systems-Drive-Behavior. Autonomous people are accountable for their decisions. This comes from an organization that has “big enough” managers and people in the right roles with the right accountability + authority to do their work.
Making the learning easier will be speed up change. Being observant of how people react to change and constantly looking for how they cooperate will amplify each persons motivation to change. The key to making this happen is by keeping the change and learning open to how people learn best.
In order for the change to happen the anxiety of learning the new skills and behaviors that the change requires must be lessened. Making the new learning and skills feel natural and safe as possible.
If the culture of the company is Failure Is Unacceptable and people that fail will be punished…It is nearly impossible for people to change to a new way of doing things. Every time a change is expected, temporary incompetence happens.
Once it was clear to everyone that this is not about me…it is about them and my role is to find cooperation and support their work, the focus and conversation changed.
If you are asked to learn a new skill. The fear that your peers may see you as temporarily incompetent causes you to reject the change outright.