20 things any manager can do to make their teams love Mondays
And none require a special set of skills
A managers mission is to make their team love Mondays. If this feels hard, let me make it easy: here are 20 things you can do that require no special skill 👇
Be the example they look for
Introduce them to great content
Show them what great looks like
Acknowledge their wins in public
Push their assumptions into truth
Promote them in a fair, public way
Stretch them beyond their comfort
Criticise them with facts, in private
Hire someone they think is a rockstar
Connect them to someone they admire
Get them in rooms they haven’t been yet
Improve a process that slows them down
Give them a vision that gets them excited
Narrow down their focus so they deliver more
Let them try and fail on experiments and ideas
Make the quality of their work exponentially better
Give them data instead of insight when they want data
Give them insight instead of data when they want insight
Occasionally join them “in the trenches” and share the workload
Respect what matters for them, and make others respect it as well
It’s no rocket science.