2. Celebrate. Most families do a great job of celebrating. They celebrate birthdays, baptisms, weddings and graduations to name a few. Any reason they can find to come together and celebrate they do.
However, my experience has been that on teams in the workplace we don’t do this nearly enough. When is the last time you broke out cake and ice cream to celebrate a team anniversary? When is the last time you broke out the music, lights and pizza to celebrate a team project milestone?
Celebrations reinforce positive things, they are fun, they lighten things up and allow teams to come together and mingle in more positive personal ways.
3. Promote. While promoting people is an important activity of leaders, promoting your team has important value as well.
It is up to you as the leader to talk about your team’s value, to herald their successes, champion their purposes and to tell their story. If you don’t promote your team, who will?
Helping your team become more visible to the larger organization creates greater team pride, rewards and satisfaction. It could also result in less defending as well 🙂
Defending, celebrating and promoting your team are big factors in increasing team loyalty. What leader doesn’t want more of that?
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