A Guide to Fulfilling Your Team’s Potential, Step by Step 

Congrats—you’ve hired a great team. By going through stacks of CVs and researching high-quality talent, you’ve pulled out all the stops to recruit a team of fresh minds! It’s a safe assumption to see success, but one could easily prove wrong. Your job of recruiting doesn’t just end there.

What’s the next step? You now need to lead and motivate the team- which is a big deal! Read on to find out what you could do to tap into big wins to fulfil their potential through effective employee engagement and well-being programmes.

As team leaders, you may overlook the capabilities your employees can achieve. According to research by Gallup, organisations tap into less than 20% of their employees’ full potential. Guiding and inspiring a team through the company’s values, missions and goals can foster a culture of development. Here are a few ways to begin

Speak up!

A great leader once said ‘Learn about your team, and they learn from you’. You may not be the ideal ‘people person’ boss, but this method of conversing personally with your employees can help you learn more about their contributions. Do frequent one-on-one meetings with each employee, and prioritise exchanging feedback in an informal setting.

Upskilling time management.

It’s true that you cannot always control your employees, but you can help them manage a schedule. As leaders, you could guide your employees to manage time efficiently. Before loading them with extra work, ask your employees what their capacity looks like. Most importantly, restrain yourself from interrupting a person when they’re engaged in a task or during off hours.

Value your employees.

Rewards, praises, or a simple ‘star of the month’ recognition works well. Celebrate the small goals that your employees achieve. Reward them mindfully, because the star employee may not be in favour of movie tickets when they hardly watch movies! Unlock their full potential by learning what they like instead.

Leaders, work on yourself.

To fulfill your team’s potential, look into your leadership game. Work on your soft skills and emotional intelligence. This helps you to improve communication and become empathetic leaders. It builds trust and allows you to pick up on nonverbal cues.

Engaging in public criticism or bullying, micromanaging without delegating, and redoing employees' work, resisting change, and putting temporary fixes on pressing issues prevent growth and innovation.

As leaders, you might be putting together the best team, but you may still find out they could perform better. Setting clear goals and fostering trust are essential to support a healthy, dynamic workplace.

There are plenty of ways to improve employee engagement. Thankfully, we have creative ways to help employees put their best foot forward. Book a consultation with us today and see your teammates thrive with inspire’s services!