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Making Teamwork Work

Many entrepreneurs, business professionals and senior leaders have now spent the last decade connecting with people on Linkedin and other social networking platforms. All those in leadership are responsible for building and influencing teams to achieve an action, complete a task or fulfill a commitment in a specific way.

Rob Peters
Aug 24, 2017 · 3 min read

Making teamwork work is no longer about wielding autocratic power. Those entrepreneurs, business professionals, and senior leaders who communicate a higher purpose; nurture a following, and support their relationships earn influence and relationship capital . This is how we move beyond just connecting with other to gaining commitment to our cause.

Ethics and Building A Purpose Driven Team

Entrepreneurs who are ethical, open, and supportive on social networks communicate and demonstrate a level of integrity that is important in stimulating a sense of trustworthiness or relationship capital. It is this relationship capital that influences connections and moves them forward to become relationships committed to the shared purpose.

These are critical elements to building commitment online and off. Entrepreneurs who are ethical are people-oriented, and also aware of how their decisions impact others and use their social credibility to serve the greater good instead of self-serving interests. In ethical leadership, it is important for the entrepreneur or other business people to consider how their decisions influence their p2p relationships.

Motivating team members to put the needs or interests of the group ahead of their own is another quality of ethical leaders. Motivating involves engaging others in an intellectual and emotional or Relationship Capital (RC) commitment between leaders and followers that makes both parties equally responsible in the pursuit of a common goal.

These characteristics of ethical leaders are similar to inspirational motivation, which is a style component of transformational leadership. Inspirational motivation “involves inspiring others to work towards the leader’s vision for the group and to be committed to the group”. Likewise, ethical leadership “falls within the relationship of inspiring, stimulating, and visionary leader behaviors that make up transformational and charismatic leadership”.

Inspirational motivation “involves inspiring others to work towards the leader’s vision for the group and to be committed to the group”. Likewise, ethical leadership “falls within the relationship of inspiring, stimulating, and visionary leader behaviors that make up transformational and charismatic leadership”.

Conclusion

The reality is that moving people and gaining their commitment to your purpose is about influence not by wielding autocratic power. Successful entrepreneurs understand this. Successful solopreneurs understand this. Today, senior business leaders are now seeking solutions to engaging their workforce. We live in a hyperconnected and interdependent world. As 18th Century philosopher, David Hume stated, “The moral imagination diminishes with distance”. In our connected world, there is no distance between us anymore. All relationships are now personal. And personal relationships are moral relationships. So, Morality is re-awakening. Anything less will not be trusted or will secure greater commitment from your team, peers or p2p relationships. Entrepreneurs and senior business leaders now understand how quickly influence, reputation, and relationship capital can be damaged in a social world that expects you to do the right thing. Making teamwork work is an imperative to sustaining business success today.

www.StandardofTrust.com

Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Trust-Leadership-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0692206965/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471524349&sr=8-1&keywords=standard+of+trust+leadership

Originally Published on August 19th, 2016 on Linkedin Pulse

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Rob Peters

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Relationship Capital | Gamification | Co-Creator of Peer SaaS Platform | HR Tech and Workplace Culture Strategist | CEO| Author of Standard of Trust Leadership

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