Monthly edition « UP ONLY » №25

Motivate Your Team in 30 Minutes

What should you do when your team’s motivation suddenly drops? How do you revitalize your juniors with positive energy?

As a WISE business consultant, my clients have asked me time and time again how they can get their team back on track when energy is down. I started trying to find a tried and true method back when I found the Hubbard® Management System and read this quote from an article by L. Ron Hubbard, written on the 14th of January, 1969:

« There is a law about this — All you have to do to restore life and action is to rekindle the failed purpose. The stops will at once blow. »

I have worked with over 400+ companies to implement the Model of Admin Know-How™ (MAKH). I was able to finesse this method through my experiences in consulting and have used it countless times in my own company and in my clients’ companies.

Many executives are faced with a situation where — due to complications at the office, managerial mistakes, or external problems — a good worker or a whole division loses motivation. A competent executive will recognize that low morale will not promote the best results for the company. If the emotional state of the personnel is negative, it is pointless to even dream about profits. However, there is a simple and effective way to breathe life into crestfallen employees that takes, literally, 30 minutes.

The first thing one has to do is notice the situation at hand. Unfortunately, most executives prefer to ignore it and would rather focus on seemingly more important and bigger issues.

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The second step is to get the staff to openly talk to YOU. You clearly tell them you’ve noticed a problem has come up.

The third step is when you enter into action: ensure your employees honestly tell you about difficulties they’ve been dealing with. Just ask them, « Guys, what happened? What’s going on? » — and make sure they truthfully answer. Your juniors may each have completely different problems: one junior’s client refuses to sign a contract, another’s client hangs up and won’t talk, a third encountered some other problem. You listen and say, « Yeah, I understand. » When a junior talks about his problem, his attention un-fixates from it — and that’s already half the solution.

The fourth step is to remind your juniors about the main goal of their job. For a sales department, you might say: « Guys, do you remember the goal of our sales department? This is the only department that ensures our income. It’s completely up to you to make sure production and logistics function. Your goal is to really ensure that it happens. » Your task as an executive is to remind employees that their work matters to the whole company.

The fifth step is to remind the team about past successes — the wins they’ve achieved. This doesn’t guarantee instant enthusiasm, but with persistence, employees will recall good contracts and grateful, now-regular clients.

The sixth and final step is to acknowledge them and get them started again: « See, you can handle it! Continue to work, act! » This completes the cycle of motivation.

So, there you have six simple steps for rekindling failed purposes. Together they take 15–20 minutes, and 30 minutes maximum for a company of more than 10–15 people.

Two common mistakes executives make:

1. Asking employees about their problems, then answering for them — offering only assumptions instead of letting employees « un-fixate. »
2. Listening to the problems, then rushing to solve everything himself and handing employees a ready-made solution — which prevents them from facing the challenge and finding their own way.

Motivating your team this way doesn’t necessarily solve their problems for them. The purpose is to find out what difficulties have accumulated so they can vent and talk it out. Once they’ve let it out: remind them of their goals, get them talking about their wins, and send them back to work. This sequence works best.

Your first attempt at these six steps might be slow going — it takes practice to perfect. But once learned, you’ll see results within 30 minutes and drastically improve the emotional state of a whole group of people. It seems like magic, but it really works.

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