IT Management: Ten Ways to Fire Up Your Team

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• Focus on people, not numbers.

  "Culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits, and habits drive results."

• Focus on people, not numbers.

  "Culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits, and habits drive results."

• Model good behavior

  Actions rather than words set the tone for employees.

• Lead from the front

  "Now is not a time to be barricaded in your office. Now is a time to be in the trenches with your people, leading, working, and building a successful future."

• Practice positive leadership

  Remain purposeful. "Negativity and fear are probably knocking your people off balance."

• Fill the void

  Uncertainty breeds fear. Be transparent. Communicate.

• Put energy vampires on notice

  "If your biggest complainer happens to be your highest performer, his negative energy outweighs his positive contributions."

• Forbid complaints without solutions

  Identifying problems: good. Proposing ways around them: better

• Mold heroes, not victims

  "Choose faith over fear. The two share a future that hasn't happened yet. And the main thing that separates them is hope."

• Focus on small wins

  Reward incremental progress, and the leaps forward will take care of themselves.

• Put go-getters in key positions

  "People who aren't in the right positions won't thrive-and your organization will constantly find itself struggling."