RULE 24
Inspire loyalty and team spirit
If you work together, chances are you are seeing more of your team than you are of your family. And your team is seeing more of you than of their families. If this is the case you had better all get on. Now you don’t have to love each other, but you do have to be a family. And the best way to do that is to inspire loyalty and create a team spirit. You, as the manager, have to be the head of the family.
You have to be respected, looked up to, trusted and relied upon. Tall order. Strong stuff. Can you do all that? Course you can. All you have to do is:
- reward them
- praise them
- be kind to them
- trust them
- inspire them
- lead them
- motivate them
- grow them
- genuinely care about them.
These are the kinds of things ...
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