Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Most people know what's necessary to get the job done, but something specific happens to too many teams that blocks their path to success. It can be depressing to observe.
Distracted, hopelessly stressed, and disconnected is the phase a dying team goes through that's typified by the following traits:
• The inability to collectively sustain a prioritised focus as a team,
• Disablement or near paralysis due to overwhelming workloads or, circumstances and exceedingly high expectations in performance, and
• An obvious lack of human connection among team members.
Far more often than not, what stops a team from doing big things is not that they lack the technical skills or functional experience to get the job done. It is, rather, that the members of the team succumb to being people they don't want to be. Life is literally sucked out of the team.
In most small and large businesses today, the typical level of employee disengagement hovers around 70 percent. Managers who focus on team members' strengths cut employee disengagement to 1 percent. (Not by 1 percent, but to 1 percent.)
How do we focus on what matters? Oddly enough, the answer is the same answer to the question, "How we focus on those things that distract, hopelessly stress, and disconnect us?" That sounds strange, but it's true. The solution, therefore, is not for us to change our brains; it is to train our brains to do what we want them to do, instead of what our brains want to do.
Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, ‘Do Big Things’ equips leaders with “the how” to quickly identify and activate the behaviours needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible. Essentially, idea and information exchanges interlock the hand, head and heart of each team member to get everyone moving toward a common goal. Increasingly, individually and collectively, the team becomes emotionally stronger and more productive as they do their work.
The success of your team is often due to you and your team working with a common language necessary to be authentic, empathetic and transparent, so that potential barriers to success come to light – faster. This empowers the team to be more accountable with an enterprise mindset, because they can have the profound discussions needed to adapt quicker to unforeseen challenges and demonstrate an innovative reflex.
Reference: Craig W. Ross: (2017) Do Big Things: The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact
