A Three Step Process To Motivate Your Team And Get The Work Flowing Again

Are you wasting precious time on tasks that are not helping you achieve your life goals?

First begin with a list of your 10 most-time-consuming business or personal activities, compare that list with your life goals and business vision, and delegate or stop doing those that have nothing to do with where you want to be in five or 10 years.

Secondly, your top T.E.A.M. Players have a long list of important projects to work on -- but instead of making progress on them, they're spinning their wheels.

Here's an idea I used regularly when consulting for corporate America that will be sure to get things rolling again.

1. Get all the people together in a room. On a blackboard or display panel, list every important project they're involved with and have each person rate each of the projects in terms of how important he thinks it is to the future of the business. Post the results on the board.

What you will probably find is that there are differences of opinion as to how important certain projects are. Discuss the individual results. Talk about the differences and resolve them.

2. Now, have each Player on your T.E.A.M. make a list of any other projects he or she feels would be important to the business -- projects not on the previous list. Post these lists on the board and ask everyone to rate these additional projects in terms of priority. Post the results on the board, discuss the differences of opinion, and come to a resolution.

3. Finally, integrate the two lists. And, with everyone using the same list, have them score them in order of priority based on their opinions. Then list the scores from each Player next to the project description.

What I do is have each Player rate the list in order of priority, (1) being the most important project and so forth. Next, ADD up the points for each project, the lowest SCORE is the project that is considered the most important by the T.E.A.M.

Continue developing the list with the rest of the scoring in descending order.

I have used this technique at Fortune 500 companies with board of directors and officers. It works. And, it quickly identifies where the most effort and resources should be invested.

What will emerge will be a new list of business priorities with a unified idea of which are the most important.

Make this year the wealthiest, healthiest, wisest and most rewarding year of your life!

The difference between great success and mediocrity is so often a matter of the small things...just a little extra here...a little more there.

It is EZ to get sidetracked...but, your weekly T.E.A.M. Meetings can keep you focused if you inspect what is expected.

Remember, you are the CEO of your business. You have the ultimate and primary responsibility to LEAD your T.E.A.M. to the outcome desired.

The author may be contacted toll free at 877-935.6371 extension 201 or email at ceo@wellnessone.net Mr. Howell is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of WellnessOne Corporation, a national alliance of chiropractic and wellness centers.