I was working with a client the other day and was asked how we attract such great talent to our projects. “Steve, you always seem to have the motivated team, the stars… that makes delivery easy”
Whilst attracting bright talent is a focus of mine (who doesn’t want to work with bright people?), we work hard at it, we also work hard at keeping them and maintaining the motivation.
Our underlying philosophy is pretty simple and is broken down into three points that anyone can use.
- How do you make your team members wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose?
- You can’t manage people. You manage tasks and inspire people to achieve those tasks. How do you inspire?
- How do you ensure your team members go home with a sense of achievement?
These three questions are answered at the start of every engagement and to ensure they remain efficient, are built into our retrospectives, which are held every two weeks. The team are heavily engaged, we spend a lot of time talking about these points and adjusting team culture and actions to ensure we deliver on them.
Take these questions to your team and see what answers you get. How can you implement them, and more importantly, how do you maintain them?
Great people are the result of inspired people.
Hope that helps.
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