2Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
Employee development is an important part of a manager’s responsibilities, and managers should strive to develop ideal team players—people who naturally facilitate successful teamwork.
3Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
Ideal team players have a blend of three core virtues, one of which is hunger.
4Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
It’s the least sensitive and nuanced of the three virtues, but it can often be the most diffi cult to cultivate.
5Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
It’s one thing to set goals and motivateemployees to increase productivity.
6Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
But it’s quite another feat to change someone’s ability to self-motivate or boost his or her desire to go the extra mile.
7Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
Many people lacking in hunger actually do want to be more productive and engaged at work.
8Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
Managers can cultivate that hunger by lighting a fl ame around the mission and setting clear expectations.
10Help Your Employees Develop Hunger
Employees may need helpconnecting their jobs to the overall mission of the teamor organization.
LIGHT A FLAME
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Managers can set an example bydescribing their personal motivation for their work and connection to the mission.
LIGHT A FLAME
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It’s important to establish performance targets andbehavioral expectations.
SET EXPECTATIONS
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Managers must then hold their employees accountable to these targets, be unafraid to remind them of expectations, and acknowledge growth when they see it.
SET EXPECTATIONS
Learn more about helping your employees develop the core virtues of an ideal team player.
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Adapted from The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues