Team unity through inclusion, belonging and trust
Let’s encourage our teams to know themselves better and welcome the individuals that emerge from that. Let’s explore more about fast-tracking inclusion, belonging and trust in teams.
Only 30% of employees say their company provides support to help them work effectively with people who share different values. (PWC, 2022).
By offering your teams the chance to know when they are and really get to know the real people you provide the opportunity to be collectively stronger. Building a team made connected by its differences, their values so that each person can bring themselves to work, but also accept each team member as a whole person. Team unity comes from sharing what makes you all tick and the chance to celebrate and be accepted for who you are. This rich knowledge builds deeper connections, lifting trust and a sense of belonging.
But knowing each other doesn’t come from knowing about each other’s hobbies, funniest moments or family. It comes from knowing each others values. The words and phrases that make up each team members unique character, their energy, their principles and standards of behaviour. When the team consciously recognises their differences and speak and act through them they experience real diversity and feel heard, listened to and accepted despite their differences.
Creating leaders and teams with unique positive characters allows them to bring out the best in each other and everyone else and creates a team environment where everyone is able and confident to be themselves. Never before has knowing your values been so important. Think authentic vs. professional leadership at a team level.
When you think about developing yourself or others as leaders and managers our movement suggests that you move away from a traditional back-to-basics approach. The latest statistics and evidence show clearly that people want positive culture, great authentic, natural and engaged leaders and teams and the flexibility to be your best as a group when working in a hybrid capacity or from different locations.
Confident teams build dynamic and engaged workforces, lets make more of them.
For too long, traditional businesses have recruited from a like-minded set, and encouraged conformity.
This kind of thinking not only suppresses personalities, it makes for stagnant workplaces, where outside the box thinking is actively diminished. Smart businesses value truly diverse workforces, who bring unique perspectives and together have a combustible energy that engenders huge leaps in progress.
We’re more than a movement. #BeYourselfAtWork is the future of the workplace: a community of individuals, unafraid to express their true selves, and are thriving and driving businesses forward as a result.
#BeYourselfAtWork is inviting leaders to reimagine the workplace. Together let’s drive a new era, setting the individual free: let’s lead with empathy and inclusion, let’s encourage our teams to know themselves better, and welcome the individuals that emerge from that. And let’s enjoy soaring productivity and drive as a result. Let’s start today.
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