THE BEST MEASURES FOR YOUR EMOTIONALLY ORIENTED TEAM
Do you primarily have emotionally oriented employees and are looking for inspiration on how to inspire them and encourage peak performance? Here are a few insights on how you can create an optimal, motivating environment for your team.
Show trust: Nothing motivates emotionally oriented people to perform better than receiving a great deal of trust. Trust your employees and grant them autonomy in their tasks. Share responsibility and enable team members to apply their strengths.
Convey values: Emotionally oriented employees want to "dock on." They would never work for a company that contradicts their own personal outlook on life and core values. Make sure that corporate values are clearly defined, understandable, and tangible for all team members.
Establish a culture of error handling: The harder you try to avoid every single mistake or even fear making one, the more tense you become and the more likely you are to make—yes, exactly—mistakes. Dealing constructively with setbacks and mishaps helps improve work processes and ensures a fear-free work environment. A positive culture of error handling also fosters the spirit of innovation: new things can only emerge when failure is permitted as part of the development process.
Encourage conflict resolution: Emotionally oriented individuals are very sensitive to simmering conflicts. Make sure that conflicts are resolved constructively and foster an open culture of discussion. Offer mediation and support for interpersonal challenges when needed.
Active feedback: Provide regular constructive feedback and show genuine appreciation for good performance. Repeatedly emphasize the importance of individual contributions to the overall success of the team.
Train resilience: Team leaders have the task of conveying stability and security, and providing a stronghold. Unfiltered emotions, anger, and obvious worries on the part of leadership create unrest and can derail even the strongest teams.
Promote community: A sense of belonging is essential for emotionally oriented people. As an employer or manager, you can significantly boost this by organizing joint activities outside of everyday work to ensure strong cohesion.
Diversity and inclusion: In a company that fundamentally promotes diversity and stands for acceptance, it is easier to feel accepted as a person—with all your rough edges. An essential aspect for emotionally oriented employees.
As an employer of emotionally oriented staff, you are challenged to provide support, ensure interpersonal balance, and foster harmonious cooperation: keep your antennas up, observe team spirit, and recognize and counteract tensions early on.
In every company, there are one or more people who naturally have a big heart and an open ear. Who are particularly empathetic, gladly chosen as contact persons, and naturally take on a mentoring role. Does someone already come to mind? Officially task this person (or persons) with looking after the well-being of the team. Ideally, dedicated time resources should be available for this to make it clear from the employer's side that this topic is important to you.
During the recruitment process, HR professionals can use PERSENTIS Profiling to assess whether a candidate is a good fit for the team. A well-selected team works together more harmoniously and has less potential for conflict. Naturally, even the best teams experience disagreements from time to time. However, in a homogeneous team that is capable of handling criticism, these issues are easier to resolve than in a group with fundamentally different approaches.
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