6 keys to awaken commitment
Commitment is one of the strategic factors to increase quality, productivity and profitability in organizations. However, it is not the easiest variable to stimulate and maintain with a good indicator.
This is mainly because it depends on the social mood of the workforce and you have to operate at that level to get the greatest possible advantage.
We tend to believe that the commitment and loyalty on the part of the collaborators towards the organization tends to arise spontaneously. Nothing could be further from the truth, since it is a force that must be kept alive every day through the maintenance of the elements that constitute it. Among these components are:
- An inclusive business style of thought that makes the worker feel that they have a place, developing affiliation and a sense of belonging.
- A set of values among which shared commitment is one of the most relevant.
- A code of ethics that reinforces the role of commitment as one of the factors that drive quality, productivity and profitability.
- Mechanisms to create balanced relationships where everyone's commitment is appreciated and reciprocated.
- Communication media that keep the members of the company informed about the value of the commitment, the objectives around this variable, the actions that are undertaken periodically and the results obtained.
Researchers from various recognized institutes agree that commitment represents a degree of trust without expiration between employers and collaborators, or between leaders and their teams. This means that the highest level is achieved when trust is not conditioned by the exchange of incentives and remuneration. It means that it is beyond the material.
We share six keys that will help you awaken commitment in your work team. Like any other practice, you have to start it and evaluate the effects until you find the appropriate and desired state according to your goals. Once you have results, you can support other leaders to adopt these steps that are also easy to execute.
- Knowing people : This is a key that can never be neglected. It is essential to know the people with whom you collaborate to obtain valuable information about expectations, objectives, desires, attitudes, beliefs and habits. It is true that you never get to know anyone completely, but this exercise will help you create a general map.
- Detect skills : The map is enriched by identifying the skills of the members of a team. You have to know in which aspects each person has high performance and in which ones they do not. In this way you can assign tasks optimizing resources and each colleague will feel that they are making a more consistent contribution.
- Create mentoring spaces : By detecting skills, it is also possible to identify which of them require reinforcement and even training. Approach each collaborator and make them aware of the importance of learning and improving continuously. Teach him how to do things and clearly explain to him what standard he must meet. Once it starts, keep monitoring and acknowledging the progress.
- Generates a climate of trust : It is essential that there is an organizational climate in the work team where people can express themselves freely and without reprisals. More importantly, it must be a workplace where people always do the right thing, learn to think and act considering the interests of the team, distinguish between what is acceptable and what is prohibited in accordance with rules of respect and honesty, the team's rules, the company and the code of ethics. If clear limits are set from the beginning, everyone will be able to comply with them and trust each other.
- Establish clear agreements : When there is knowledge about people, awareness of their abilities, conditions for learning and a climate of trust, the team will be in a position to establish clear agreements in which there are dates to meet and deliverables to perform with certain standards. This is where the commitment to the group to carry out the task begins to emerge, taking care of the relationship and, above all, stability and survival in general.
- Motivates behavior with integrity : Commitment becomes the quintessential representative of the value of giving one's word to achieve something: this is known as integrity. Little by little, this translates into an ability to promise and fulfill, where the satisfaction of achievement is a fundamental stimulus that is enhanced when all the collaborators of a work group are also available to recognize that success is achieved together.
Finally, it is very important that you teach your collaborators to distinguish between personal victory and team victory. We all have opportunities to show off our individual efforts and that is where personal victory should be celebrated. In turn, there is the team victory that is the result of what we do together. The first cannot be above the second and that too is a commitment that we must all undertake with integrity.
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