This months work is really what I needed. Was feeling a bit ho hum about work and life, lacking motivation and wanting for inspiration to appear out of the woodwork. I tend to feel like this every July/August when I question my work, career, family life and get a bit stuck in a rut.
The work has me really creating momentum with some major projects that I am responsible for and I am now 6 weeks ahead of schedule and feeling really good.
What has come from this however is:
1) Realisation that most of my team that I manage are terribly un-engaged at work, just going through the motions, not connected at all to their work.
2) I tend to blame work for my stress, occasions when I loose it at home, for why I dont have time to cook healthy meals, work out, yet this month I am managing to work out, eat well, feel energised, get results and I have even lost 1.5 kilos!
So equal parts good and bad from this I guess.
How can I coach my team to be more engaged with their work, to self motivate, create their own schedule and manage progress etc?
Any tips?
Also how to I maintain this? I guess its about intention right? Planning ahead, being clear and balancing work, health, family etc? I dont know I could maintain this pace every month, maybe I could, but to be honest I like that some months are more family, less work, others are the other way around, it feels nice to be able to go hard in one area then focus on another if that makes sense?
Getting it done. The aftermath.
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This insight you have is so good!
The fact you can see how you tend to default to blaming work stress when it is actually just when you go unconscious with how you manage your life is so good! Just noticing this means you will continue to notice it when you revert to old behaviours, which we all do at times!
How can you coach your team?
Think about it like this.
If you tell them what to do you are managing them.
If you inspire them to take action you are coaching them.
In order to inspire them, you have to ask them questions, questions designed to allow them to create the process.
Ask them what they need in order to be able to perform at their best?
Ask them what they think is the best way to plan and create strategy for their projects?
Ensure that they know what the values of the company are, what the number one priority is, why what they do matters to your customer.
Ensure that customer feedback is looked at as often as financial data and that the team know about it.
Ask them what systems or practices they would like to use to help them and others manage progress etc?
You get the drift!
And as for maintaining momentum.
You hit the nail on the head.
It is about having an area of your life where there is momentum, where there is growth, work, family, health, one at a time, cycling in and out is fine.
But the key is intention and planning.
Plan how you will spend your time each month, make sure it reflects the life you want to be living, make sure it is a healthy and sustainable approach, then review it each week and show up and do what you said you would do.
You cant go wrong.
Its about being strategic.
Strategic work AND strategic rest.
xx