YOUR CHOICES

-- Listen more deeply to each team member's needs and perspectives
-- Actively observe team members on the job to see how they're doing
-- Notice when team members are doing something well
-- Give more positive feedback soon after your notice a success
-- Notice "room for improvement" moments, then give feedback

-- Facilitate more productive and enjoyable meetings
-- Have more frequent team meetings
-- Help team members frame compelling "How can I?" questions
-- Facilitate more idea generation sessions
-- Establish and reinforce team agreements

-- Help each person understand their roles and responsibilities
-- Create opportunities for your team to share best practices
-- Tell stories that spark insight and inspiration
-- Coach and mentor
-- Clarify your team's processes (i.e. how things get done)

-- Identify your team's key "How can we?" questions
-- Establish and reinforce Standards of Excellence
-- Have more casual, one-on-one conversations
-- Secure more support from Senior Leadership
-- Empower team members to solve their own problems

-- Build more rapport and trust
-- Increase team alignment (i.e. get everyone on the same page)
-- Work with your team to create an inspiring Team Mission Statement
-- Use Teamwork Cards to spark self-awareness and insight

-- Meet with a coach to continue building your team leadership skills
-- Get feedback from your team
-- Start your meetings by acknowledging forward progress made
-- Facilitate debrief sessions (i.e. what your team learned from an experience, mistake, or "failure")

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