Anybody can read assignments off of a sheet, tell people what to do and act like they are leading…but that doesn’t make you a leader. You may get by with that in a corporation, with the government or military where people are locked in on a salary and have to put up with that nonsense.
But you aren’t going to get their best efforts.
There’s no chance of that project being a huge success. It may get done, but there will benothing special about it because everyone will just be shuffling through the motions. They will be doing the absolute minimum they can get away with so they can just get it over with.
It takes a real leader to get the best out of people
They treat people the way they want to be treated. Someone has to be in charge but they don’t have to be a bully about getting things done. No one wants to be taken for granted. No one wants to feel belittled. People expect to work but they also expect to be respected as well.
Wonder how to get your team excited about the next project? Turn it into an adventure.
The more projects you can turn into adventures, the more productive and energized your team will be. The idea it get the work done with as many smiles as possible. When you treat assignments like work it seems tedious, but you can take the same project and present it as something big, something important, something that will make a big difference, and something that needs their best efforts.
Do a word association with most people on the word work and see what comes up.
You’ll hear things like chore, boring, annoying, obligation. As long as your team sees a project in this way, you are fighting an uphill battle. People will be fighting you every step of the way.
How to turn your project into an adventure
It takes a little effort to figure that out—but it’s worth it—and the more you do it the better you’ll get.
