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Uncategorized Dec 19, 2019

Increase Employee Performance and Simplify Your Life with a Unified Company Purpose

The following is adapted from The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck.

 

In a Psychology Today article titled “The Power of Purpose,” Steve Taylor writes: “The need for purpose is one of the defining characteristics of human beings. Human beings crave purpose, and we suffer serious difficulties when we do not have it.”

As individuals, we need purpose. By creating a purpose for your company, not only do you give your employees a way to find meaning in their work, but you also unify them as a team. 

In The Performance Factor, Pat McMillan, who is a big leader of teams doing amazing things such as climbing Mount Everest, says that a clear and compelling purpose is, in fact, “the single biggest factor in team success.”

In this article, I’ll outline how a unified purpose increases employee performance, which ultimately simplifies your life as a business owner, as a manager, and as the leader of your team. 

The Productivity of Teams

Without unifying your team around a purpose, your company will feel like a collection of individuals doing their own thing. If everybody’s going in different directions, how are you supposed to be effective?

When everybody is working together toward a unified purpose, that’s when you become a team. With everybody on the same team and focused on the same mission, you’ll be able to do a lot more and make a bigger impact. If one person has a bad day, the others can help pick them up. They can help one another grow and hold each other accountable.

My staff calls one another family. They hang out with one another because they genuinely want to and because they care about each other. That helps them enjoy coming to work, and it also creates a healthy sense of social responsibility. 

If someone knows they’re not performing as well as they could be, they’re not going to think, “Oh man, I’ve got to do this thing or my boss is going to get mad at me.” Instead, they think, “I’ve got to do this thing because if I don’t, it’s going to affect my coworker—whom I care about, who’s my friend—and their life will suffer if I don’t pick up my performance.”

When your employees feel social responsibility, your job gets much easier.

The Effects of Social Responsibility

My team is incredibly easy to manage because they have a strong sense of social responsibility, both because they believe in our purpose and because they care about their coworkers. They want to complete their tasks and do a great job—without my having to spend a lot of time and energy keeping them accountable. They keep one another on track, and that accountability is more effective than my telling them what to do.

One of my employees was going to be out of the office for some time because her husband was having knee surgery. The rest of the team, instead of worrying about how her absence would affect them, came together and asked, “How can we help?”

I didn’t have to tell them to step up or give orders. I didn’t have to implement any policies or procedures. They just did it because they care about one another—and about our clients. They care about our unified purpose of loving people through finances. That is always the goal, no matter how it’s achieved.

The Power of Employees Who Care

At the end of the day, we all want employees who care, and a unified purpose makes it so your team cares about one another, about the company, and about your mission.

When your team grabs ahold of your unified purpose and starts pursuing it with everything they’ve got, you’ll be blown away by what they can accomplish. Remember: people desperately crave and need purpose. When you provide it for them, they will reward you with unbelievable amounts of high-end performance, service, and love—over and over and over again. 

For more advice on motivating employees and creating a unified purpose, you can find The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck on Amazon.

 

Grant Botma is the founder of Stewardship and the leader of its nationally ranked team of top producers. Thanks to a thriving company culture, Grant’s team has won numerous awards, including national performance rankings like “Top 1%” and “Top 100.” Grant’s leadership has also grown Stewardship to be an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company In America. He lives in Arizona with his wife, Jodie and their three children, Cambria, Parker, and Ellenie. To learn more about Stewardship, visit moneywellrooted.com.

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