Build Success From The Ground Up

Don’t Miss The Trees for The Forest
A high-achieving team is made up of successful individuals. If each of your individuals isn’t successful, how will the team succeed as a whole? To maximize the potential of the team, you can’t focus on managing just at the team level, you need to work closely with each individual on their needs and what will make them successful.

Who Works For Whom?
My team doesn’t work for me; I work for my team. The team members don’t need to make me successful; I need to make them successful.

This is something that insecure managers have a hard time grasping: the more you can make the people around you successful, the more successful it will make you.

Each Person Defines Success Differently
What does success mean for each individual? The #1 motivation for the best people is not money. What is it? Do they even know? This isn’t a question you can answer at a team level, as it’ll vary wildly by each person.

My favorite definition: True success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming (Coach Wooden).

If you can help each individual define success to them, then you can understand how to align their goals with the team’s goals, your goals and the company’s goals much more effectively.