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What Are The 8 Steps You Should Take To Have A Highly Motivated Team
You want a highly motivated team? Well, then you need to walk the walk, and talk the talk every single day.
It’s easy to motivated and enthusiastic when things are going well. The true test of a CEO is how the CEO reacts when things aren’t going well.
For example, you just lost your largest customer. You’re still motivated.
Or maybe your latest funding round fell through at the worst possible moment. You’re still motivated.
You can’t ever give in to despair as CEO. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is watching how you deal with adversity. You have to stay positive and motivated regardless of how bad the situation might truly be.
Your team’s motivation starts with you and your actions. These actions include:
A. You need to hire a fanatical team.
Specifically, you want a team that lives and breathes what your company is working on. You want a team with a great attitude. In short, you want fanatics.
Fanatics keep going even when times get rough. Fanatics don’t care if the odds are against them. Fanatics don’t need you to motivate them because they motivate themselves. Then…
