Shadowing Practice: Why Keeping Your Team "Happy" Backfires - Learn English Speaking with Video
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You don't build morale by being overly protective or by mollycoddling your people.
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You build it by giving them an environment where they're expected to stretch and grow and achieve.
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Welcome to Moments with Marty, your short, sharp shot of leadership insight to help you to stay on track between our weekly episodes of the No Bullshit Leadership Podcast.
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You may have heard me talk about the leadership myth that happy workers are productive workers.
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Conventional wisdom says that if you want a team to perform, just keep the people happy.
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This, in turn, will increase their engagement.
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which in turn will motivate them to perform.
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Bullshit.
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Let's look at this from the perspective of team morale.
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Years ago, I read a comment on one of my blog posts from a leader who had a background in the military.
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He wrote...
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Um, Soldiers with high morale aren't happy.
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They're confident.
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secure, and enabled to perform.
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They are not well fed, rested and kept out of harm's way.
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You don't build morale by being overly protective or by mollycoddling your people.
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You build it by giving them an environment where they're expected to stretch and grow and achieve.
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This is what builds individual self -esteem.
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and it's also the foundation of high team morale.
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The conventional happy workers are productive workers wisdom depends somewhat on our perspective on what 'happy' actually means.
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Are we talking about short -term happiness?
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or long -term happiness.
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As humans, we're pretty poor at prioritising long -term outcomes.
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if we were actually good at it, Our habits around eating and sleeping and socialising and exercising would probably be quite different.
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And this isn't because we're bad or we're lazy, it's because that's the way we're programmed.
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So instead of driving towards the deep long -term satisfaction that really embeds peak performance, Most leaders focus on delivering short -term,
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sugar hits of happiness to their people.
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Short -term happiness can be created by providing more flexibility in working hours or location.
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higher pay.
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are perks like free cookies and pizza.
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But long -term happiness comes from helping your people to stretch grow and have an impact.
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from being able to see the difference that their contribution makes.
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to feel that deep sense of self -esteem that comes from achieving difficult things.
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The short -term stuff's very attractive for leaders to adopt because it's easy.
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And people are happy when you do it.
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it's a panacea for reducing conflict in the team.
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The long -term stuff, on the other hand, takes real work.
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You have to build your people's confidence, security, and their ability to perform.
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Confidence comes from knowing you can handle any situation that presents itself.
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And It requires resilience and experience and resourcefulness.
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It's the deep knowledge that you're prepared for for anything.
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Security comes from knowing that the people around you have your back.
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You trust that they'll be there to support you if you need it.
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and you'll be there for them.
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You also rely on your leader's willingness to set and maintain a high standard of performance. for everyone.
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No exceptions.
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The ability to perform comes from repetition,
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discipline, and experience as you constantly work on your craft and seek to reach levels of excellence in every area of performance.
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If you're trying to keep your people happy, But team morale is on the slide.
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This is probably why.
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For more depth on this insight and to get access to my five do's and don'ts for improving team morale,
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have a listen to episode 281 of the No Bullshit Leadership podcast, Building Team Morale.
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We'll leave a link in the show notes.
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I really hope you enjoyed this moment and that it gives you that extra little spark to be a no bullshit leader.
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