{"id":11508,"date":"2022-01-27T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T18:08:02","slug":"how-do-i-motivate-my-team-to-improve-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/how-do-i-motivate-my-team-to-improve-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Motivate My Team to Improve Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is part 2 of a transcript from the webinar: “Top 8 Priorities When Shifting a Culture to be Data-Driven and Powered by All Employees, Not Just Some.” Portions of this transcript have been revised with added context and reduced for brevity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What are Ways to Shift Culture in an Organization?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. Give Permission\u00a0\u2013 Do your employee’s peer’s direct reports know that it’s okay to suggest new ideas driven by data?<\/li>\n
  2. Motivate\u00a0– How motivated are employees at your company? Do they rush to work to offer up the next big idea?<\/li>\n
  3. Create a\u00a0Reward System\u00a0–\u00a0When your company makes an earth-shattering leap based on a group of employee’s great wild ideas? Do those employees get rewarded? Is there a direct correlation between the reward and the company’s gains?<\/li>\n
  4. Paint a New Mental Picture\u00a0– Shifting the way you think with a paradigm shift. Do employees know how to think differently? Just separate yourself from the rest. It would be best if you thought\u00a0differently. And in some cases,\u00a0significantly different. Think about the taxi\u00a0ten\u00a0years ago, 20 years ago, think about Uber today.<\/li>\n
  5. Give\u00a0Power\u00a0– Are you giving the power? Are you enabling do employees\u00a0to\u00a0have the green light and the tools to be disruptive?<\/li>\n
  6. Show and Tell\u00a0– Does your organization celebrate wins,\u00a0even the smallest,\u00a0because those are the ones that feel the big ones.<\/li>\n
  7. Encourage Entrepreneurship – Perhaps my favorite at every level of your organization are people encouraged to wear the entrepreneurial hat from time to time or all the time.<\/li>\n
  8. Co-Create (Let the Team Create the Solutions)\u00a0– Creating a playing field in which all employees can\u00a0co-create with others who are perhaps at different levels within the organization with different backgrounds or skills or titles from different business units\u00a0etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Many people do not know this, but this approach was one of the accelerators of the COVID-19 vaccine. I don’t have a ton of time to go into how right now,\u00a0but look up if you have time, look up\u00a0BioNTtech\u00a0and their co-creation with Pfizer. It’s saved millions of lives.<\/p>\n

    How Do I Give Employees Permission?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Let’s start by giving permission. Giving permission means letting your peers, direct reports, and management team know that it’s okay to take what’s already been defined, such as corporate strategy, vision, goals, etc., and make it even better. Every single employee must know that they too can drive the next million-dollar idea, or at least the ideas that increase your employee satisfaction score by 500 or more basis points. Most companies do an excellent\u00a0job of defining who they are and where they want to go as a company.<\/p>\n

    But the opportunity that’s often missed that’s sitting right under our noses is how to engage every employee in that process or that journey.\u00a0Thriving organizations have cultures that continually lose out\u00a0on\u00a0new ideas, for example, monthly coffee roundtables, in which people come together\u00a0to\u00a0go wild and brainstorm ideas.<\/p>\n

    These roundtables are open to all employees and can be accomplished with little effort and relatively low cost. The cost, I mean, I don’t know, lunch for a few very deserving teammates that said, removing obstacles means creating budgets for wild idea generation and making it known, you know, being public about that being unapologetic about that leadership should fully understand and publicly support the ROCI. Because guess what, the\u00a0following\u00a0big ideas are always right around the corner.<\/p>\n

    How\u00a0Do I Motivate My Team to Improve Culture?<\/h3>\n

    In general terms, motivation, which like culture,\u00a0is something we have all talked about or read about 1000 times before,\u00a0right?<\/p>\n

    When I google getting ready for this presentation and trying to\u00a0develop\u00a0new content, I Googled books on motivation and got over 20 million hits in less than 1.44 seconds.\u00a0So,\u00a0am I going to tell you anything earth-shattering and new that you don’t already know? Probably not. And that’s okay. But what I will get to\u00a0be\u00a0the heart of motivation and what matters when trying to enhance your culture and open the door for more fun and more innovation.<\/p>\n

    Ways to Get Started in Motivating a Team\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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    1. First things first, you need a team, a team of highly motivated, diverse, flexible, creative, vocal, passionate champions willing to help drive willing to lead by example. This is not hard to do\u00a0after getting the committee approved by or, you know, whoever may care, ask for volunteers.<\/li>\n
    2. Make it clear what you’re trying to do:\u00a0organize a team, who will help lead a cool and exciting effort to generate the next set of groundbreaking ideas.<\/li>\n
    3. Define the WIIFM, which stands for What’s\u00a0In\u00a0It\u00a0For\u00a0Me?\u00a0Then, let them know and let the selection process begin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I have found that a group of you may ask Steve, you know, how big should this group be? I don’t.\u00a0I don’t have the perfect answer. But I found that a group larger than\u00a0ten\u00a0or less than three can be\u00a0effective, so be mindful of\u00a0how many people you invite to the party.<\/p>\n

      This is the committee\u00a0that will help plan and execute your small cultural enhancements. The team\u00a0can help you figure out how to make data and analytics part of your DNA in a fun and exciting way. Always look to be creative.\u00a0Today’s workforce does not like being boring. Everything is fast. Everything is new. If work is not fun, exciting in a\u00a0small dose of incremental evolution, then you’ll lose them every time,\u00a0and worth noting that this will cost us\u00a0dollars as well.<\/p>\n

      But remember, you have your ROCI down by now. It should be easy to convince approve that the investment is well worth it. Rely on your champion committee to help cement your value proposition.<\/p>\n

      In sports, you have two types of games. First, you have individual games like golf and tennis. And then you have team sports like baseball, football, rugby, etc. The truth is most of us as part of larger organizations benefit most from the teaming mentality, the team sports, right?\u00a0Individual sports foster a certain mental toughness and personal mastery. And that’s fine.\u00a0But team sports forces\u00a0us\u00a0to cooperate and work together to achieve common goals and which we get to celebrate together.<\/p>\n

      Namely, one company can single-handedly influence our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – Amazon, Walmart, you know,\u00a0the\u00a0list goes on\u00a0who is made up of a few individuals,\u00a0you can’t.<\/p>\n

      It’s all about the team winning and losing together. Everyone should understand their weapon, what’s in it for me, spend time making sure it’s\u00a0apparent\u00a0connecting the dots. Great ideas push us closer to being the world’s most admired and socially responsible companies.<\/p>\n

      To move towards a more fruitful culture where celebrations for a job well done are\u00a0every day, you must reward\u00a0adequately. This does not always have to be monetary.\u00a0But you know, money, my friends,\u00a0will always be a motivator.<\/p>\n

      What are Incentives to Motivate My Team?<\/h3>\n
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      • Create a new bonus pool where teams can reward a split the prize<\/li>\n
      • Create a contest in which the winning team gets an outing<\/li>\n
      • Commit to installing a new foosball table, if all the objectives are met<\/li>\n
      • Maybe you throw a few more zeros on their paychecks. I’m sure that’ll work too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        But the point is –\u00a0create obtainable goals in which the company succeeds, the team succeeds and all rewarded.<\/p>\n

        Key Takeaways:<\/h4>\n
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        • Permitting\u00a0employees translates to giving employees a setting to brainstorm. Think coffee sessions, roundtables,\u00a0or whiteboarding activities.<\/li>\n
        • Shifting your culture is a team sport, not an individual practice<\/li>\n
        • When incentivized, employees do their best work\u00a0\u2013 identify the WIIFM (What’s\u00a0In\u00a0It\u00a0For\u00a0Me)\u00a0when launching a new\u00a0initiative.<\/li>\n
        • Incentives for employees don’t have to be monetary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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