Keep Your Troops Focused on Victory

04-07-08
By Bigg Success Staff

Leadership Skills

 

As the leader of your troops, you have to keep your group focused on what you’re trying to accomplish. Few things will discourage your team faster than feeling like their leader isn’t committed to the cause.

So you need to demonstrate to your troops how important you believe it is to succeed. Here are four ways to do just that: 

Keep the spotlight on
Keep your 270 vision of success] in front of your troops at all times. If it’s not important to you, it won’t be important to them.

You demonstrate how important it is by keeping the spotlight on it. Keep it at the forefront of your mind so it will be at the forefront of theirs.

Report progress
Let your troops know how things are going. They’ll make assumptions if you don’t. If you’re ahead of your plan, congratulate them and encourage them to keep going.

If you’re behind, discuss how to make up for the deficiency and the consequences of not doing so. Remind them why success is so important.

Direct needed energy and resources
There are a lot of things that you would like to accomplish. However, you’ve defined success so now you need to show you’re committed to achieving it.

To do that, steer all the energy and resources of your team toward that vision. If you can succeed without doing this, you haven’t been ambitious enough in your vision.

If you set the vision, but then don’t devote the required energy and resources, you’ll rob your team of victory. Give them what they need so they accomplish what you need. 

Don’t let anything distract you.
Along the way, there will be many distractions. Don’t make the mistake of reacting to things that only divert resources from the victory you defined.

That will discourage your troops. People follow leaders who know what needs to be done and then focus single-mindedly on achieving it.

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