5 Steps to Make Your Team Feel Appreciated | Brian Tracy Video Lecture | Be a Leader: Leadership Development Course - Management

hello I'm Brian Tracy and today I want
to talk to you about how you can make
others on your team feel appreciated
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feeling appreciated fuels motivation and
the ability to make others feel as if
their efforts and contributions are
truly appreciated is a big part of what
makes a good leader I was just watching
the life stories of five of the greatest
military leaders in history and every
single one of them had the quality to
make their men feel valuable and
appreciated and as a result they won
incredible battles often against
overwhelming odds and it's the same
application in business making others
feel appreciated may seem easy enough
but the truth is that it's often easier
said than done the general consensus
among employees tends to be that their
bosses don't truly appreciate them and
you'll have to overcome that general
consensus to prove otherwise to help you
hone your leadership qualities so that
your team will feel more appreciated and
in turn be more vote motivated and
committed consider implementing these
five steps first learn to genuinely care
about the people on your team one of my
favorite leadership quotes says the best
leaders have a high consideration factor
it's number 1 by the way in all the
research they really care about their
people you see it's not enough to
compliment your employees when they do
good if it's not genuine they will see
straight through it before you can get
to the point where your team feels
appreciated you have to get to the point
where you really do appreciate them if
you can learn to truly care for and
appreciate your team members even if it
takes time and practice they will take
notice they will take it home they will
tell the members of their family and
every time they think about you there
was smile next take a look at your
leadership style there are a number of
leadership styles that you may choose to
employ each one with its own set of
advantages and disadvantages and each
one appropriate at a different time
however some leadership styles
lend themselves more to making your team
feel appreciated than others one of my
favorites is a leadership style called
golden rule management which simply
states that you should treat your
employees the way you would want to be
treated if you were in their position
and they were in yours many years ago I
was made the head of the 265 million
dollar company with operations in three
countries the company had been run by
incompetent people and I fired them all
and replaced them all with brand new
people after six months that was one of
the most positive and motivated groups
of people and years later people said it
was the best job they ever had in their
lives because they felt so good about
themselves working in this company and
you can achieve the same result now and
showing people appreciation this will
include giving genuine appreciation
where appreciation is due third engage
in everyday conversations one of the
most important things for leaders to
keep in mind is the fact that the people
under them are ordinary everyday people
they're not robots built to perform a
task and each one of them has
aspirations and passions and struggles
and more that exists outside of their
day job it follows then that one of the
easiest ways to show you truly
appreciate your employees is to engage
with them in conversations about these
topics basically the question how are
you doing how's everything working at
home how's your life very very powerful
ways to show interest and appreciation
really all you have to do is spend a
little bit of time talking to your
employees the same way you talk to a
neighbor or any other acquaintance if
you do this you'll show that you see
your employees as more than people who
are just there to perform a task by the
way many people think well they don't
have time to chitchat with their
employees the fact of the matter is if
your employees are highly motivated
they'll accomplish five times as much as
they would if they weren't and they
didn't feel appreciated so it's an
incredibly good investment fourth
communicate your goals employees like to
know that they are playing an important
role in moving the company forward
however it's hard for an employee to see
how they are playing an important role
in the
picture if they have no idea what that
bigger picture is and this makes it
important to clearly communicate your
goals to your employees and let them
know how what they are doing is helping
the company reach those goals by the way
I told you about great commanders one of
them was Horatio Nelson who's considered
the greatest commander in British
history and he used to bring all of his
captains together for long lunches and
dinners where he would share with them
everything that was going on and he
would talk to them and ask them
questions and he would share it with him
his goals and what the goals were for
the fleet so every single captain every
single officer knew what everyone else
was thinking knew what the goals were
and they were able to accomplish
victories that even today are
extraordinary wiping out entire fleets
of the enemy and making Britain the most
powerful sea power in the history of the
world because of the constant talking
about the goals and sharing the goals
and inviting input on the goals so this
not only applies to the short term goals
that you set for individual employees
but also long term goals that they may
only play a part in helping to reach the
better your employees understand how
their efforts are making a difference in
how they tie in to the bigger goals the
more appreciated they will feel finally
challenge your employees some leaders
feel that intentionally challenging
their employees will have a negative
effect on their morale the reality is
though that nothing could be further
from the truth
few people enjoy doing mundane mindless
tasks and the chances are that the
people who work well under you have
worked for years in their career further
their education and learn secondary
skills also that they are better
equipped to tackle more and more complex
challenges for those who have put in the
work to better themselves nothing is
more rewarding than getting a chance to
flex their capabilities by tackling a
challenge and you can guarantee that if
they are able to overcome the challenge
you give them they'll come out of it
feeling more appreciated than ever
before the great success writer orison
Swett Marden wrote a book on this some
years ago and it was all about self
discipline and what he said is that
nothing will help a person to grow
faster in ability and confidence than
responsibility make them responsible for
disciplining themselves to achieve an
important task and then stand back and
stay out of it and those people will
complete the task they will amaze you
and they will grow to a new higher level
and before more capable of achieving
even greater tasks in the future before
we wrap up I'd like to leave you with a
thought to share with your friends and
followers practice being a mentor to
your staff give them guidance to advance
their careers now I'd love to hear from
you so my question today is this are you
setting the right example for your team
here's a great question which I asked in
my management seminars successful
leaders ask the question what kind of a
team would my team be if everybody in it
was just like me what kind of a company
would my company be if everybody in it
was just like me and then they just keep
adjusting and adjusting their behavior
so that the answer is always this would
be a much better place to live and work
if everybody in it practice the same
things that I do every day please leave
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