30 Second MBA: How do you re-inspire Exhausted Team Members?
Check out our Director of Mojofication, Bix Bickson’s response to Fast Company‘s ’30 Second MBA’ question: how do you re-inspire exhausted team members?
People get tired and they should. We are not machines. A lot of the current design of organizations, schools and management techniques were devised from a very mechanistic view of the world. This perspective sets up an inhuman expectation that is impossible to fulfill.
If you are tired or your team members are exhausted:
It is normal.
People need breaks.
Practice listening and acknowledgement.
Listening is not responding. Our world awards people who can talk before the other person finishes speaking. Listening is having the person speaking experience being heard. Don’t worry about what you need to say. Worry about the person speaking knowing that you hear what they are saying. No wonder people get exhausted. Conversation after conversation is all talking and very little listening…whew!
Acknowledgement…ahhh…respecting and appreciating all that it takes for people to accomplish what they are accomplishing. Huge effort, commitment, dedication, innovation, creativity, communication, let alone hours that are required and given everyday. Try an experiment. Everyday put one person on your to-do list and communicate to them your appreciation, your respect, your acknowledgement of them (not just what they do).
It is hard to inspire if you are not inspired. What puts the mojo back in your work? In your life? Are you giving yourself what you need? Do a bit of mojo-accounting for yourself. If it is getting toward the empty mark - refuel. You deserve it.
See how other directors and CEO’s answered this question by clicking HERE.