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11/1/2018 |
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Strategies To Help Your Team Members Become More Proactive |
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Strategies To Help Your Team Members Become More Proactive by Lisa Mulcahy It's a familiar scene: you explain the general outline of a project to your team — but no one takes the immediate initiative to contribute fresh ideas to the plan. If your employees routinely seem to hesitate when it comes to jumping into a new task, it's probably not a lack of motivation — it's most likely because they don't know how proactive you really want them to be. Many workers don't want to overstep their bounds and intrude on what they perceive to be their bosses' territory. Yet you no doubt want your employees to bring you their A-game when it comes to giving each project their all from the start — so let them know it and help them do it! Use these simple, research-proven strategies to get the ball rolling: Clearly expect more. Emphatically communicating to your employees that you want them to work beyond their job descriptions is a great way to empower them. Tell your workers that you encourage them to work together fluidly, and you want them to work on solutions to a project problem on their own before asking for your advice. Avoid giving feedback while your workers are making decisions. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London report that talking about a task while your workers are actively concentrating on how they want to proceed with it will make their work worse, not better. You don't want to overload their attention capacity; the researchers say the fewer distractions you provide, the better choices your workers will ultimately make. Give them time to arrive at a conclusion, then feel free to add your perspective. Read full article on MultiBriefs.
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