There is power in rituals. Beyond slogans or speeches, they create actions around which team members can bond. And they can be as unique, quirky, and fun as your team.
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So as a manager, you have to find what connects with your team. How can you share your passion with them, motivate them?
The answer, as usual, comes down to communication. You have to tell the team why. Why am I this passionate? Why is this mission meaningful? Why is this small detail so important that Iâm flipping out right now when nobody else seems to think it matters? Nobody wants to follow someone who throws themselves at windmills for no reason. To get people to join you, to truly become a team, to fill them with the same energy and drive thatâs bubbling within you, you need to tell them the why.
Running a team is hard because it ultimately boils down to people, and all of us are multifaceted and complex beings. Just like how there is no one way to go about being a person, there is no one way to go about managing a group of people.
And yet, working together in teams is how the world moves forward. We can create things far grander and more ambitious than anything we could have done alone. This is how battles are won, how innovation moves forward, how organizations succeed. This is how any remarkable achievement happens.
I believe this as deeply as I believe anything: Great managers are made, not born. It doesnât matter who you are. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager.
The rising stars on your team may not be clamoring for your attention, but if you help them to dream bigger and become more capable leaders, youâll be amazed at how much more your team can do as a whole.
Just as your management style reflects who you are and what youâre good at, so too should your plans take into account your teamâs unique capabilities.
Your teamâs culture is like its personality. It exists whether or not you think about it. If youâre not satisfied with how your team works togetherâmaybe the vibe feels hostile instead of helpful, maybe it takes a long time to get things done, or maybe thereâs constant dramaâitâs worth examining why this might be and what you can do about it.