Building Your Team Up

Your team will, at times, fall to an insecure or self-defeating posture. The way to overcome this is to build them up:

Recall past victories – this may be small or large but make sure you credit the team with anything they did. Don’t fake it, they’ll see through it, focus on real victories.

Explain the benefits of learning from bad decisions. Don’t treat them as negatives, don’t treat them as fake positives, just take them and discuss how to learn from them. Then use that learning as a victory.

Praise the team for bad decisions that have been overcome. Focus on the positives coming out what was learned.

Build all of these together and build up the team.