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If you want your team to be committed to the cause of your organization, you have to understand that it is a process. The foundation of this process has to be trust. Trust needs to be laid as your foundation if you want your team members to be committed. Why is that? It's because team members will only give everything that they have when they feel like they are in a safe environment. The commitment levels increase drastically when your team operates in a safe environment. A safe environment is one where your team members are free to express themselves, free to step out and risk and are free to fail and not have a sense of impeding doom from the leader if they should fail. When you have this foundation laid, people will give more than just 8 hours of work per day. All they need is somebody to believe and trust in them. To be committed means every person on your team gives all of themselves to the team. The best way to describe this would be that each team member takes ownership of the team and the organization. If your team is carrying the weight of the organization's core values, mission and vision, and they feel like they own those values, you have an extremely effective team. I do know that not all teams are at this level where every team member is fully committed. But here are a few tools to help you start the process of getting there: Increasing the level of commitment in your team: 1) Make the goals of the team the focal point When you meet with your team, and even when you are not meeting. Does each team member know why they are apart of your team? Do they know what they are supposed to be doing? By having them come to terms with these questions, they begin to understand the why. And the why is essentially your organizations mission. Why you exist. You have now aligned your team members to your organizations mission. This inspires and fuels commitment. 2) Making space for team members thoughts on your goals You need to be making space for team members to apply their thoughts to your goals. Team members will help protect what they helped create. There is a big difference between giving someone something to protect and having them protect something they put time and effort into. Making space for team members to provide ideas and input will see your team grow and team bonding increase as members feel committed to something they helped create. 3) Watching for unsatisfied needs Ask yourself, have all team members given their ideas and thoughts into the process? Have all team members given the best that they can give? Is there anything the team members need that hasn't been recognized yet? Unmet needs will sabotage trust. Be aware of any team members who need something but are not getting it. This will lower commitment levels the fastest. For more team building ideas and team building games as well as team building activities, visit my website: Team Building Ideas HQ
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