What do your team members really need to be asking themselves? Better yet, what do you need to ask yourself to improve team morale? The ideas can start your team communicating effectively with this mini SWOT Analysis. Here are some great questions to ask:
What are our weaknesses?
How are we unique?
What do we do best?
What opportunities are within our reach?
How can the CEO and other key people become more involved with the customers/members?
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The following is a typical question that I’m asked when I meet others at a networking event: How can I engage my team since they are so stressed out? The person who asks me this question realizes that his or her team is strong yet the stress is worse than ever before due more demands and doing more with less. Effective communication, prioritization and delegation are 3 important factors on how effective teams can cope with stress. I give them the following link to an article which addresses this issue:
I just finished the 2nd Breakthrough program in the series hosted by motivational coach, Tony Robbins. I have been a student of Tony’s for years and actually walked on hot coals with him to overcome some of my own fears when I was changing careers.
He used strategies with his clients that made a lot of sense to me. I thought these strategies would be perfect to share with you – my blog readers. These ideas are not “fluffy” positive thinking statements. These are solid ideas that do work. I have used these strategies with my clients in my own coaching practice. These ideas will help with your stress reduction at home or work. You will learn tips on how to use an effective communication style.
1. We need to look for the positives in a situation or a person even though we may only see the negatives at the moment. This is a tough one yet necessary for us to move from being stuck in an interpersonal issue. What is one positive quality about your job or your coworker? It may take you a while to find it, but it is so important to start looking for one small positive in order to change the negative state that you may be experiencing.
2. Learning and owning a lesson is an important part of the process in overcoming a challenge or conflict. The reason why it is necessary to face our fears (which may be speaking honestly to a co worker or loved one) is that we all grow from the experience if the communication is effective and open. What did you and the other person learn about each other?
3. We then need to design a compelling future to make sure that we don’t return to old habits. What action steps will you take as a result of the communication or the lesson that you learned?
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Check out the following short video that describes how Sue used Be Direct with Respect® to Communicate with Impact! This short video shows how using a few words can add an impact to use effective communication and resolve conflict and interpersonal issues. This tip can also help with accountability issues.
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When there are unresolved issues festering below the surface, they will eventually cause energy to be diverted from your team. Group cohesion is a good thing to have especially while conducting honest and assertive communication!
Some teams are open and use open communication with honesty while others don’t speak with candor.
To refocus your team, ask the following questions:
What do we need to be talking about here… let’s not beat around the bush
What issues haven’t we been talking about?
How is this currently impacting you and how will this impact our future?
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