From the course: Leading and Working in Teams
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Motivating and goal setting in teams
From the course: Leading and Working in Teams
Motivating and goal setting in teams
- Up until now I've been talking about letting up on the brakes, freeing people up to be themselves, to make their contributions to the work place. Now I'd like to talk about motivating people to work really hard. Motivating them to take the risks of teaming and learning. A lot of managers start to worry at this point. They get it. They see how psychological safety helps learning and helps teamwork. They want people to speak up, but do they have to back off a little on excellence? Do they have to lower their standards? No, it's not actually a trade-off. It's an additional dimension to manage and this is the dimension of motivation. It starts with aiming high, articulating compelling goals that are clear, meaningful, and just enough of a stretch. Examples of compelling goals are achieving 100% patient safety at a children's hospital or rescuing 33 trapped miners 700 meters below ground in northern Chile. If you don't do either, then that's the apathy zone, but if you just worry about…
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