How have you personally been able to motivate and inspire your team?

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Fran Racioppi · Answer

So the question is, how have you personally been able to motivate and inspire your team? Well, this is the definition of leadership. How do we motivate and inspire others to do things that they otherwise may or may not be interested or willing to do? That's what our job is. So how do you do it? Number one, you've got to find what motivates them. What I have found time and time again is if we don't figure out what motivates people, what drives them, what gets them excited and put them in the right role, so we call it the right place, right person, right time. That's critical. We need people who want to do what they're doing with the right set of skills at the right time for our organization to maximize effectiveness. The other piece, we have to have mission alignment. We have to have people who want to be there to achieve the overall vision and goals of our organization. We have to clearly lay that out. If we don't, what are we driving them towards? They don't know. We don't know. We don't know what to motivate them towards and why. So we've got to find first mission alignment, define it, understand where we're going and why, get people who generally agree to that, and then put them in roles with the right skills at the right time where they're going to be successful and excited about what they're doing every day. Then give them the resources to do so. That's how I personally motivate and inspire my teams. Thanks for the question.

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