Top 6 Resources to Help Leaders Build Engaged and Motivated Teams

Four Goals

Get Results
Engaged Team
Enthusiastic Customers
Create More Leaders

Nine Jobs

Be a Coach
Remove Obstacles
Build Relationships
Become a Strategic Learner
Create Alignment
Challenge the Team
Nurture a Healthy Culture
Assemble the Right Team
Create Accountability

Top 6 Resources to Help Leaders Build Engaged and Motivated Teams

A team that gets results by burning out or damaging its people is not sustainable. Still, not all organizations strive for the same level of employee enthusiasm. Are the leaders in your organization in agreement on the desired level, and do you have quantitative and qualitative ways to track employee satisfaction and organizational health?

Course

The Coaching Mindset: How to Unlock the Motivation and Performance of Your Teams by Leveling Up Your Thinking

Scott Drake, JumpCoach
This powerful lesson is a shortcut that will help you: 1) Delegate in empowering and motivating ways; 2) Coach problem solving and unlock the best thinking of others; 3) Inspire motivated teams who will bust through walls to get things done; 4) Grow your emotional intelligence and avoid traps that derail many well-meaning leaders.

Book

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Kindle Edition

Daniel H. Pink
"Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world."

Book

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Amy C. Edmondson
"With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? ... Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. "

Article

Four Manager Mistakes That Destroy Employee Engagement

JumpCoach
Well-intentioned managers can damage employee motivation and not even know it. This article introduces four common leadership mistakes that destroy engagement and suggests how to begin correcting them.

Article

What Motivates Employees (and Yourself)? An Illustrated Explainer

JumpCoach
Learn how to motivate your employees and team to care as much as you do.

Article

How Can Neuroscience Improve Employee Motivation (Including Your Own)? An Illustrated Explainer

JumpCoach
Your brain judges everything as a threat or a reward, and the typical workplace is full of threats that reduce performance, motivation, and effectiveness.