3 Positive Traits to Attract Your Dream Team
Aug 18, 2024
I was asked the same two questions in two different Work Positive coaching conversations: “How do you do everything you do?” and “Who is the ‘we’ you keep referring to?”
Both questions are about productivity. Both have the same answer: a Work Positive Dream Team.
The number one predictor of success I’ve discovered coaching leaders to create a Work Positive culture is their ability to release their own ego needs to “do everything” and attract the right persons to their dream team. They leverage relationships with talented teammates by coaching them to understand how their daily tasks align with the company purpose.
So how do you attract your Work Positive Dream Team?
Here are 3 Positive Traits to Attract Your Dream Team:
Core Values drive Behavior
Core values are those inner beliefs which guide you. Ideally personal core values align with company core values and create an internal consistency that organically magnetizes behavior.
This alignment requires that each team member clarify their personal core values. Leadership identifies and communicates the company’s core values.
“How do we roll?” is a great question to ask oneself, teams, and leaders.
Values such as integrity, honesty, and fairness form your core within. Such values emerge in behavior. Think of them as silent partners in determining what to do when.
Such behavior attracts and repels team members as the “due north” (Covey) of the company’s culture. First, clarify and align your own core values, gathering evidence from your behavior. Then, gauge alignment with the company’s core values. Once aligned, only then will you attract your dream team.
Priorities drive Behavior
Priorities are what’s most important and essential about your daily work tasks. Your behavior follows this innate sense of priority.
For instance, if work is a priority for you to the exclusion of lunch or bathroom breaks, you lead from a place of busyness rather than intentional focus on strategic activities which develop business. If you lead a team, they will have their individual heads down, but doing what? Anything to appear busy rather than working collaboratively on important company priorities.
The alignment of daily task priorities with the company’s purpose drives behavior in remarkable ways. Meaningful work emerges from this connection. Team members belong to a cause greater than themselves. They understand their role in mission critical, priority tasks. They commit to the team and company’s success.
Priorities alignment creates a culture that attracts team members of similar priorities. “What are my priorities?” and “What are our team’s priorities?” plus similar questions drive behavior that magnetizes compatible team members to join.
Unique Contribution drives Behavior
Setting aside personal ego needs to try to do everything yourself is a monumental task for high-performers. Many of us define ourselves by what we do and how much of it gets done. That’s fantastic to a point…and that point is the wall that limits growth of people and profits.
Perhaps you can do everything, but not all at once.
Every team member must ask, “What is my unique contribution to this team and company?” Sure, there will be several, all of which carry varying degrees of uniqueness. Narrow that list down to a few, most unique tasks.
Part of a leader’s/manager/s role is to communicate the behavior driven by these unique contributions and insure the team’s comprehends each person’s. Such knowledge empowers the team to achieve peak performance.
Such peak performance is so attractive to prospect team members. The clarity of unique contributions creates a culture of confidence in one’s role and others’. That confidence is contagious.
To attract your dream team, you first create an attractive culture with behavior driven by:
- core values
- priorities
- unique contributions
What’s your question about how to create a positive work culture? Ask Dr. Joey here.
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