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“If only you…then…” When those four words fall out of a team member’s mouth the toxin known as ‘blame’ begins to enter the life of the team. Avoid it at all costs! It will poison team members creating resentful, isolated, and insecure people. Rarely, if ever, is one person the cause of a team’s failure or success. We have a tendency to do both, either blame somebody for failure or reward one person as the ‘game changer’ that ushered in the team’s success. It’s not that easy nor is it realistic. Success and failure occur as a result of millions of little actions and selections by every one on a team. Simply put, it is unfair to point at one person. Organizational culture that celebrates failure as well as success will fabricate teams that help one another and refrain from the blame game. 3 tips Get comfortable with errors as much as success – The pathway toward success is littered with respective dead ends, mistakes, and bad ideas. When asked if he felt like he wasted time on thousands of bad experiments before he in the end formulated the light bulb, Thomas Edison replied, “No. At least we recognise 2000 things that won’t work.” As a kid when I messed up, my mom gave me perspective, “Hey. It’s not the end world.” There are huge mistakes, but they never usher in the end of the world as we recognise it. We all make mistakes. Take a deep breath and move forward together. Motivate positively – Criticism is a poor motivator. No matter how much persons think it works, it never does. It merely pushes persons away and eats away at relationships. It produces a negative atmosphere in which to work. Do you recognise what motivates person members of your team toward success? Challenging work? Appreciation? Choices? Recognition? Approval? Assurance? Value? Quality Answers? Guaranteed, when you grasp what motivates others on your team and commune in their language the team wins and a positive synergy results. Let the leader lead – A few years ago I helped coach a middle school football team. One day at practice, one of the players messed up a blocking assignment. Joey, one of his fellow teammates, begun to tell him off until Mark, the head coach, stepped in. “Guys!” he said as he walked over to Joey, “Knock it off. I’m the coach, you’re the players. When there is a mistake, I’ll take care of it and aid to rectify it.” Mark reestablished his role as leader and Joey’s role as player. By doing so, the team could focus on working together toward success, knowing that the leader would deal with errors and reward success fairly. No one was ever made the scapegoat for a loss or the star player in the win. |
